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Here Comes The Sun
Posted by: Cane on 5th Jul 2010 in Creative Report
images credit: Solar Millennium AG
Three large-scale renewable energy projects for today, tomorrow and...some time in the future...
Andasol
www.solarmillennium.de
Solar Millennium are currently putting the finishing touches to their third Andasol facility in the Spanish desert. Once all three are completed, they hope to provide electricity for half a million people. Their technology involves fields (think seventy football pitches each) of parabolic reflectors heating oil, to heat water into steam to drive turbines.
Apart from their award-winning 99% efficient collector troughs, another of their innovations is a thermal storage system, which retains excess heat in vats of molten salts, which can then discharge overnight, giving a more even and reliable output.
Andasol 3 will be followed by a facility in Egypt, then several more across the world.
Desertec
www.destertec.org
40 years from now (by which time there will be 9.5BN of us worldwide) the Desertec Industrial Initiative are planning for 15% or Europe’s electricity to be coming from an integrated network of renewable sources across Europe, Asia and Africa.
This includes concentrating solar power stations around the coasts of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, which will not only generate 470,000 MW but could desalinate 4,000,000 litres of seawater an hour for drinking or agricultural purposes.
Check their site’s FAQ for the numerous logistical and ethical snags they’re anticipating.
Sahara Forest Project
www.saharaforestproject.com
The Sahara Forest Project is an ambitious plan to integrate several different methods and technologies to produce fresh water, electricity, food and biofuel in low altitude areas of Saharan Africa.
Like Andasol and Desertec, it uses concentrated solar power, but in combination with seawater greenhouses and algae cultivated in photobioreactors for increased efficiency and productivity.
They are currently moving from modelling to an experimental ‘Demonstration Centre’ to prove the principle of their theories, so watch that big, sandy space…
What to listen to:
1. Solar by Miles Davis
2. Here Comes the Sun by Nina Simone
3. Anything by Sun Ra
Posted by: Cane on 5th Jul 2010 in Creative Report
images credit: Solar Millennium AG
Three large-scale renewable energy projects for today, tomorrow and...some time in the future...
Andasol
www.solarmillennium.de
Solar Millennium are currently putting the finishing touches to their third Andasol facility in the Spanish desert. Once all three are completed, they hope to provide electricity for half a million people. Their technology involves fields (think seventy football pitches each) of parabolic reflectors heating oil, to heat water into steam to drive turbines.
Apart from their award-winning 99% efficient collector troughs, another of their innovations is a thermal storage system, which retains excess heat in vats of molten salts, which can then discharge overnight, giving a more even and reliable output.
Andasol 3 will be followed by a facility in Egypt, then several more across the world.
Desertec
www.destertec.org
40 years from now (by which time there will be 9.5BN of us worldwide) the Desertec Industrial Initiative are planning for 15% or Europe’s electricity to be coming from an integrated network of renewable sources across Europe, Asia and Africa.
This includes concentrating solar power stations around the coasts of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, which will not only generate 470,000 MW but could desalinate 4,000,000 litres of seawater an hour for drinking or agricultural purposes.
Check their site’s FAQ for the numerous logistical and ethical snags they’re anticipating.
Sahara Forest Project
www.saharaforestproject.com
The Sahara Forest Project is an ambitious plan to integrate several different methods and technologies to produce fresh water, electricity, food and biofuel in low altitude areas of Saharan Africa.
Like Andasol and Desertec, it uses concentrated solar power, but in combination with seawater greenhouses and algae cultivated in photobioreactors for increased efficiency and productivity.
They are currently moving from modelling to an experimental ‘Demonstration Centre’ to prove the principle of their theories, so watch that big, sandy space…
What to listen to:
1. Solar by Miles Davis
2. Here Comes the Sun by Nina Simone
3. Anything by Sun Ra
Comments
Posted by Todd on 6th Jul 2010 04:55 PM
We've listened to them all. Thank you very much.
We've listened to them all. Thank you very much.
