Solar Tower – EnviroMission reduces green house CO2 emission
EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators.
A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).
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An innovative …
An innovative concept to say the least.
wow !
wow !
EnviroMission Solar …
EnviroMission Solar Tower Wins Southern California Public Power Authority: Press Release on Enviromission’s website.
They ran into …
They ran into problems in their home country, Australia, because of the enormous coal lobby. Australia is a huge coal exporter so makes sense. So they went on to buy solarmission technologies in the us through a stock exchange deal. They finally aquired that company and now plan on towers in arizona i think. But I really hope they get some more support on the home market so that they can build the first tower in Mildura as planned.
Panels? What …
Panels? What panels?
Large plants that …
Large plants that use coal/natural gas produce a gigawatt, therefore you will absolutely need all five towers shown at the end to compensate. It seems it would be costly due to size and amount of panels needed, nevertheless, a good investment for the environment
It seems that it …
It seems that it will not be built in the near future, but it really is a good and reliable technology that will likely be built eventually. It is too bad that it isn’t already being used instead of all of those non-environmental power producing methods.
I offer a question, …
I offer a question, what if instead of the ground under the dome to water, would increase the power?
before i learnt how …
before i learnt how the solar tower works, i thought this was a huge mirror array / dish.. n i was like what!! those people elevatorin’ to the top are gonna get toasted!!! lolz
supercool
supercool
and require a lot …
and require a lot more steal work, and be a lot harder to maintain, costing more, working less.
It’s really? No …
It’s really? No news from company since 2007. Poorly information in official EnviroMission website. Anyway, what is building progression status? The building is started or not??? No information – no investment.
This thing is …
This thing is amazing. I hope to see more of them used, this is a great source of clean energy
Ground heat …
Ground heat accumulated during the day keeps the tower producing at night – at a reduced rate of-course (but theres less demand anyway during nighttime).
What happens at …
What happens at nightime? No production?
How long does it takes to “warm up” the air before it flows with enough speed?
Can it be made at a smaller scale and still produce significant power?
What is the lifespan for this kind of mega-construction and what are the costs of maintenance?
windmills slowdown …
windmills slowdown airflo wich intern heaththe earth
turbins slow wind …
turbins slow wind witch intern rapidle heats up the planet im 12
where does this …
where does this project stands? I checked wikipedia and there is basically no news since 2007. The company (EnviroMission) still has a (pretty) website, but not much info on it.
is this your …
is this your professional opinion?
Much to expensive …
Much to expensive and to inefficient compared to cheap thinfilm photovoltaic.
Carbon dioxide …
Carbon dioxide accounts for just 0.0383% of the atmosphere.
There are only wind …
There are only wind turbines at the base because cold air or dense air at ground surface when heated up it creates convection or it raises in that way the flow and pressure of warm air ascending is greater and more efficiently used.
I would imagine you …
I would imagine you can’t put too many turbines in there, as you want the hot air to successfully evacuate the tower to be replaced with fresh air, rather than have alot of obstructions in the tower that would clog up the air flow.
The History …
The History Channels Modern Marvels stated that it would take only 620 of these to power the US. At $700 million a pop that means that it would only cost $434 billion to power the US with an energy source that is always going to be here.
why are there only …
why are there only turbines at the bottom? even though they would porduce less power higher up surely they should still utilise the full height of the tower