Solar Tower – EnviroMission reduces green house CO2 emission
on Apr 29 in Lowes DIY
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 400000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1960000 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 500000 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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money/cost wouldn’t be a problem if we were in a resource based economy as suggested by the Venus Project / Zeitgeist Movement
How to tell if some new technology is cost effective:
If the idea is good and cost effective the private sector will voluntarily invest in it and you will see one built solely with private money. It will then make profit because it is more efficient than the alternatives.
If the idea requires public money (our taxes) then it is not a good idea. It must be such a bad idea that no one wants to invest voluntarily in to it so the money must be taken by force and spent on the project.
just fitting our houses with solar panels would work too.
there is no panels involved. They are glass plates. the light heat the ground. the air get heated. air flows to center because of temperature difference along the chimney. Also, the plates cross-sections are getting larger gradually before it enters the turbine hole.
Crap like this is why california is giving out IOU’s insted of tax refunds.
The one question I have about this tower is why the greenhouse section is not filled with sea water. Water vapour is less dense than air so it would rise up through the tower. Then the distilled water would rain down in the immediate area creating a microclimate. The the high salt content water could then be either sold to Indonesia or the magnesium chloride could be sold to magnesium processors (perhaps using the electricity from the tower) or returned to the ocean.
An innovative concept to say the least.
wow !
EnviroMission Solar Tower Wins Southern California Public Power Authority: Press Release on Enviromission’s website.
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?
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 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, what if instead of the ground under the dome to water, would increase the power?
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
and require a lot more steal work, and be a lot harder to maintain, costing more, working less.
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 amazing. I hope to see more of them used, this is a great source of clean energy
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 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 airflo wich intern heaththe earth
turbins slow wind witch intern rapidle heats up the planet im 12
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 professional opinion?