Solar Tower Energy
by admin on Saturday, August 14th, 2010 | 25 Comments
This is the future project in Australia. It will be ready in 2012.
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This stuff has been talked about for years pretty big project for the return… I think.
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it’s not happening
it’s not happening
Hey! you forgot my DICK after the solartower. It is 1002 meter – I win!!
@spamvigilante It kills me to agree with a name-calling idiot, but Mortsdans is fundamentally correct. $5 per installed watt of capacity does not compare well to most other forms of generation, and that # is a forecast – how many giant new engineering / construction projects come in “on budget” (remember the chunnel?). And a $/kwhr delivered cost is impossible to know because O&M on such a facility has never been done. I hope they can get this built to see if it can work, but I am skeptical.
@Shannariano FYI, your math is a bit off – the Burj is 828M tall.
I see the future for energy being based on tiny fission devices.
Like a tiny earth. Our inner core is solid iron the size of the moon over 5000 degrees and a liquid outer core the size of mars.
So there is pretty much a Sun inside the earth burning like mad.
How the universe gets along without any help is the mystery.
We can’t even light a few bulbs; using more energy to produce it than we net in the result. Makes us look pretty stupid I suppose.
Something will come along…but not this.
Actually, it was some french guy that flew first.
As for this…tubes flex..concrete cracks…solar radiation/wind can easily stress it…not to mention the bottom is hot and the top is cool so it will degrade faster than normal.
Instead build underground without less risk of collapse.
We forget that materials have a specific density that doesn’t translate well to use on a massive scale.
A tube of that size will have a hard time supporting itself no matter what it’s made of.
@DirectorZero well obviously the top doesn’t collect the rays, so no :S
I know that solar radiation loses power as it goes through the clouds. Is their reason for building this so high to get the rays of sun before they hit the clouds?
@bucktheusa metal cables aren’t strong enough to even support their own weight in some situations but something like that could be done with some futuristic massive cable what’s stronger than a spider web (which is much much stronger than metal)
costs too much to build
@bucktheusa You do realize you’re like the geezer who looked at the Wright brothers’ flying machine and intoned “It’ll never work!”, right?
Did they start building this yet?
Yes, lets create artificial winds over a huge land area!!!
Constant 30+ mph winds sure won’t fuck up the local environment, not to mention what it will do to local weather and cloud cover.
Why not try it out with something a bit smaller?
Why don’t we just dig a hole and throw money into it? One day it’ll become fossil fuels.
Is it 200MWh are what?
I would use a large steel pipe braced on the inside by flat steel. Then sitting on rocker bearing to allow it to sway with the wind. Also guide wires would be an abosolute to lower construction costs and to help stabilize the overall structure.
Basically all this would be is a tall radio tower on steroids.
Great idea btw!
I love this! The more energy the better. Good job Australia
Read about The Troll A platform. A concrete building like that is done in a single continuous pour. 1.5 km could be pushing it though, since all that concrete is pumped up if I remember correctly. That is a lot of energy. But it isn’t impossible or too expensive, just look at grain silos. Same tech.
Arent the other sun power projects more cost effective?
“The ancient Chinese had a name for it: Feng Shui. We call it energy flow. It is the same thing, the same thought: energy is everywhere, but only a fraction of it is tapped by humans for their purposes. Now the Progenitors have taught us that we can tap not only our own latent abilities, but the latent abilities of the Universe itself.”
– Prophet Cha Dawn, “Planet Rising”
Wow, the John Holmes of steam pipes.
1000m for 200MW is definitely too much investment.
People at the top of tower will start felling weightless.
@bucktheusa so you don’t have anything positive to contribute?