Beautiful Solar Tower
May 3rd, 2007
The BBC is currently featuring an article on the strange and beautiful Solúcar Energía power plant in Andalusia. Sunlight is reflected by 600 huge mirrors, each measuring 120m2(!!), onto a 40-storey high tower, delivering a massive 11MW of energy from steam turbines. Not only is this an incredible achievement of science, it’s utterly beautiful.
Solúcar Energía homepage (Spanish/English)
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3 Comments Add your own
1. coracle | May 3rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
That is the best thing I’ve seen in a long, long time.
2. John Matthews | May 9th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
I’m all about the Seville solar tower - though it reminded me of an even more outlandish project that I read about a few years ago and haven’t heard of since. It might be worth a SciencePunk investigation!
3. Eleni | May 19th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Amazing and I hope we get something similar in greece.
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