FeedEnviro Mission
October 10, 2008 in Solar Tags: 50, Clean, energy, enviro, green, mission, people, solar, sun
Situated in the desert of Australia, this plant of solar energy will be the highest construction of the world and also the most ambitious workmanship to generate electricity from a non-polluting source… The biggest project of production of solar energy of the planet is being touched in Mildura, in the way it desert Australian. A tower of 1 kilometer of height for 130 meters of diameter, that will be the highest construction of the world when to be ready, in 2009, will be raised in the center of an immense solar panel, of 20 kilometers squared. If everything to run as the foreseen one, the heat generated for the panel will form a draft of up to 50 kilometers for the moment in the enormous chimney, the sufficient one to put into motion 32 turbines, to generate 200 megawatts of energy and to supply up to 1 million of people.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
So therefor it is very rigid. The solar tower is not going to be built to those specs. Thats why it uses the cables at various places within the tower - to stabilize it kind of like a bicycle wheel.
This kind of design also makes it suseptible to susceptible to heavy wind loads. Look up the YouTube vid of a glass breaking when high frequency sound waves are thrown at it. The soundwaves are kind of like heavy winds in this case.
But hey, engineers say it can be built. So DO IT ALREADY!
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Absolutely. It takes a lot to stand up to a 700mph 747 Jet. 1m of concrete would not do a lot to stop it. Look at the Pentagon. That was thick reinforced concrete walls - not to mention the layers of kevlar and whatever else they used to make it “blast proof”. That tower is going to be less stable than a skyscraper. Skyscrapers are built to carry heavy loads WITHOUT moving.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
A dingo stole my idea!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
At first i thought the energy would be generated by the solar panels … shame on me ^^
Lol if someone gets too close to the tower ‘CHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwhoops’ Bye…
But i noticed a similar effect next to a Cooling Tower of a Nuclear Power Plant… had to hold my Basecap tight otherwise it would be gone^^
Very Scifi Animation
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Yea, me too.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Yeah you are probably right I still think though that terrorist arent going to target it.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
1 meter of concrete and steel … Don’t think a small air craft could do much to it… could be wrong though.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Awesome music.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I’m no terroist by I think they tend to go for more effective targets such as the world trade centres which were of great economic importance or the Pentagon which was strategic or places with large populations. This thing is in the middle of the outback and the Australian outback which makes it an unlikely terroist target. I’m sure though they will prepare it for the worst although I’ve heard the walls are only 1 m thick so a cessna could probably go through one end and out the other.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
It could be a great tourist attraction. And a + for the enviroment at the same time.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
yea, good point what has the us spent on the war in iraq so far over 100 billion? pluse the lives of enough people to staff the worlds largest solar energy company. so yea i agree.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
If we use this kind of tecnology, terrorist will not have money from petrodollars…we will not have wars too…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
roughly 1 million US dollars for one tower with unlimited resources seen in the Spain solar tower.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
No. It will not. And certainly less than the cost of war.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
So good, but tower is very high.
It isn´t real in near future.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Finally something that sucks and blows at the same time! Split water with the electricity and enjoy the Hydrogen Economy pollution free for you and me.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
The same way nuclear power plants are protected, which can result in a lot more damage if attacked by terrorists than something like this.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
how to make sure against terrorism? I know it´s a difficult question…but… one chesna could do a lot of harm, doesn´t it?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Now that is something cool!
It’s gonna make an amazing tourist attraction, assuming you can get anywhere near it..