Today, more people are interested in getting their skyscraper up as high as possible. Well, Australia’s EnvironMIssion thinks otherwise. They think that their Solar Tower needs to go higher rather than some skyscraper!
According to recent reports, the company has goal of setting up a Solar Tower as about 1 km high in the southern part of USA. This tower would be surrounded by a 2.5 km radius panel that would receive the sun’s energy and convert it so it can be used for heating homes.
Basically, the tower renews the energy through the use of the temperature difference between the bottom and the top of the tower. The difference in the temperature between the bottom and the top is approximately 50 degrees. As hot air tends to rise up, the hot air from the panel will go through the tower. Calculations show that the speed is approximately 15 meters per second.
The rising air will then turn the 32 turbines, creating 200MW, which can heat about 200,000 typical households while preventing about 900,000 tones of greenhouse gases from being released into the environment.
This tower will be way higher than the Burj Dubai (approximately 650 meters) and be nearly as tall as twice the Empire State Building. The EnviroMission team believes that this can play a key factor in solving the issue of the depletion of fossil fuels.
Source: EnviroMission
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