EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market symbol: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange symbol: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators. A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1960000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).
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This concept has been around for a few decades. They did experiments in Spain back in the early 90’s. The original plant used a single vertical wind turbine that produced about 30kw, and plastic sheeting instead of glass. They were surprised to find that plants thrived under it like in a green house.
The Enviromission power tower concept can work and work well. However there is no reason why the heat collection canopy could not include an inviroment for a population, town or small city which by itself generates heat which is recycled by the tower. The canopy can also work as a protective climate controlled area in which to grow anything a super greenhouse of sorts . using the power tower on an Island which included open sea under the canopy would also be a very good.
The one question I have about this tower is why the greenhouse section is not filled with sea water. Water vapour is less dense than air so it would rise up through the tower. Then the distilled water would rain down in the immediate area creating a microclimate. The the high salt content water could then be either sold to Indonesia or the magnesium chloride could be sold to magnesium processors (perhaps using the electricity from the tower) or returned to the ocean.
Here’s an idea for the tower. Make it out of sections of tubular steel like a radio mast. Arranged in a tube shape, obviously. They run cables, like a radio mast down to the ground anchors. Then, of course, cover the inside with some sort of membrane. Many radio masts have been built to a height of 2000 feet.
EnviroMission Solar Tower Wins Southern California Public Power Authority: Press Release on Enviromission’s website.
as soon as possible
ASAP=????
We need to do it ASAP!
“Totally unfeasible”
I was thinking the same thing. But what if they were to wrap Photovoltaic panels around the diameter of the tower to collect even more sunlight as it passes over it during the course of the day?
Combining multiple technologies just might do the trick here…
Totally unfeasible.
I have the specs in front of me:
In order to have a respectable capacity of 200MW the plant must have the following configuration:
Tower Height – a whopping 3,280 feet
Tower Diameter – 393 feet
Collector Diamter – 22,965ft THATS OVER 4.5 miles!
Itll take about 3 years to produce as much energy as is took to build the thing. The idea is great, but it’s just too MASSIVE to be competitive even today. I hope they find a way around the upright tower thats the killer
This is a fantastic video. Really impressive. My hat is off to these people. We’ve been using chimneys in our homes for centuries with these same principles.
great idea, i really hope this and other similar ideas get built soon. we really need to start utilizing clean renewable energy sources as soon as possible.
Wow, great idea…I hope is has good results.
Has a construction cost been estimated for this project. And where are the resources for its construction coming from and will the preparation of those parts and supplies create a further carbon imprint or are they green produced. The glass I imagine requires excessive temperatures. Perhaps he should look at Spain’s use of PVF.
The wealthy oil sheiks, Rothchilds and the rest of the capitalists and elitist in this world should make one for each major city in each State/province in each country around the world .. but the ammount it would cost for the glass and concrete, steel and manpower, they would probably rather build yet another palace or island for themselves.
Love it!!!!!! companies that put pollution in our world everyday make me so mad…it sickens me. Noones doing anything about it, untill now. Thats just a start, but we have to do more. WE HAVE TO
Can you post these photos/videos of your models? How large do they have to be to pay for themselves?
It’s relatively low-tech. But it will surely be the 8th wonder of the world. Maybe they will invent a machine which will build the tower in a big spiral – essentially building more and more reinforced concrete on previous rows of concrete its already built as it goes around. Tons and tons of steel and concrete.
Very smart but it will be hard to build a tower that high. I thought that before to make somekind of gigantic elevator to space. It would have to be built in light tissue with nylon.
Not sure if it is cost efficient…the original was supposed to be 1 kilometre high and cost 800 Million Australian for 200MW.
That’s no longer the case…though the Government has just changed from a Nuclear Nut-case we all called “the little Poison Gnome” to a staunchly anti_Nuclear fellow we all like to call “Heavy Kevvie”.
I like it for it’s simplicity tho.
Hey, I would like to see it happen: don’t get me wrong!
I’ve done few small scale kodels and it works great. I think this is something we should take seriously and start uilding.
How close to reality is it?
is a good invent
Gigantic!
Awesome!