Solar Power Tower in Operation
This is a very cool way to get power from the sun. I think one day mirrors may be the most efficient means of collecting solar energy on a cheap and massive scale.
MADRID, April 27 (Reuters) – Spanish engineering company Abengoa has begun operating a 20 megawatt solar power plant that is the world’s biggest, using a tower to turn the sun’s rays into electricity and can supply 10,000 homes, it said on Monday. The PS20 plant in the southern province of Seville uses 1,255 mirrors to focus solar radiation at the top of a tower 165 metres high, in order to boil water to drive a turbine and generate electricity.
Of course, you can make your own solar heat collection unit at home to cook food, in a solar oven. The boiled water in a solar tower is just another way to use solar heating and generate electricity from the sun’s free and renewable energy. Photovoltaic cells (solar panels) are not required in this method.
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Hat tip to TGB.
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