750 million dollars, 200 MW of electricity and 800 meters high: these are the "dimensions" of EnviroMission, a futuristic project that involves the construction of a gigantic solar tower in the middle of the Arizona desert by 2015. plant will be used to produce the latest generation of renewable energy, in the sense that no one has yet experienced anything like it.
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750 million dollars, 200 MW in electric energy and 800 meters high: these are the "dimensions" of EnviroMission, a futuristic project that involves the construction of a gigantic solar tower in the middle of the Arizona desert by 2015 The plant will be used to produce the latest generation of renewable energy, in the sense that no one has yet experienced anything like it.
In fact, EnviroMission will not resemble the sin Seville concentrationnor to the hybrid power plant or other bizarre forms of alternative energy. The renewables in this case there are two: wind on one side and sun on the other. Thanks to their combined action, the tower - almost twice as high as the Empire State Building - will be able to meet the energy needs of 150.000 American families.
A stunning result due to nothing more thantemperature range typical of deserts such as that of Arizona. Specifically, the tower of the EnviroMission project will rise in the center of a raised area covered with glass panels, 40.000 square meters of a sort of greenhouse without plants where, inside, the air will be heated until it reaches one temperature of 80-90 degrees.
Thanks to the lower weight of the hot air, a current flow will be created which, conveyed to the center of the greenhouse and then up the tower, will move a series of turbines arranged along the shaft at high speed. All to zero emissions CO2 and with an average life of the plant calculated in almost a century!
The project is a patent of the same name Australian company EnviroMission, founded in 2009 with the aim of installing the solar megatorri in different countries of the world. It is instead financed by the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), a joint venture of 10 municipal companies and an "irrigation district".
The tower is expected to be operational by the end of 2015, and there are already those who bet that it will become, in addition to a power plant, also an attraction for tourists.
Roberto Zambon
