 | If all goes as scheduled, Eviromission's Solar tower of power is going to rank as the tallest manmade structure in the world, measuring a whopping 1000 meters in height! Click here to get exclusive preview video directly from the creators at Environmission. |
Enviromission makes plans for the tallest manmade structure ever created: The Solar Tower of Power - a huge solar array with enough photovoltaics to light up 200,000 typical Austrailian households. When completed, the tower should be almost twice the height of the world's tallest structure, the CN Tower in Canada. This ambitious project, announced some years ago, will be the first large-scale solar thermal power station on Earth. This 200MW solar power station will be a technological marvel and will, as Enviromission hopes, help to spark new interest in renewable energy resources. The tower itself is hollow, chimneylike, and around its base a large, circular solar collector is placed in a 25,000 acre bowl-like shape around the facility. During the day, this solar collector absorbs a massive dose of heat from the sun, and the air under the colletor is rapidly heated. As this hot air rises at about 30mph, it will find its way up the central hollow tower, where the hot air will turn several large wind turbines to generate electricity.
Enviromission hopes that the Solar Tower of Power will "capture worldwide attention and attract significant added value through tourism and agribusiness".
Six phases of the project have been outlined, and as of 2005, Environmission is in the Final Feasibility phase:
This structure is expected to keep 830,000 tons of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere every year.