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Toyotas Solar Tower Project. Certainly a different take on Solar Tower Technology.

posted by neon neophyte
3/29/2008 7:23:43 PM

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neon neophyte : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

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609 days 1 hour ago...

By popular request..

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EckJerome : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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608 days 8 hours ago...

A "different" take? Hardly.

Solar power plants of this same design have been operating in the Mojave desert for more than 20 years. Though I give kudos to Toyota for joining the party.

I recently worked on a truely innovative technique for collecting solar power. Can`t talk about it much since a patent is pending...but it promises to make solar power as cheap as coal. That`s been the real challenge of solar power, bringing the cost down to competitive levels. Going big with your design has the drawback of requiring a lot of raw material to build it...we`re hoping to reverse that trend by thinking small.

Be looking for exciting news coming out of Arizona in the coming months.

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mooseman : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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608 days 6 hours ago...

^^ I`ve been hearing that for years and yet still nothing financially viable exists.
it would probably be easier w/o the oil cartels though

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ded86 : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

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606 days 22 hours ago...

wonder how they gonna power the city at night?? it`s until we gonna create the world`s complete energy grid powering night life in environmentally friendly way won`t be financially liable

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nyforever : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

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606 days 21 hours ago...

^^ By storing the power generated during the day... Duh!

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mattytheory : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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606 days 21 hours ago...

EckJerome: Keep us posted man. We need some alternative power schemes, so if yours works out, I want to know where to buy one. Or two.

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noneother : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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606 days 21 hours ago...

what happens when the mirrors get dirty? that`s a lot of labour to clean them.

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Silverest : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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606 days 21 hours ago...

^That`s more jobs created then! Less unemployment...

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triptych : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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606 days 21 hours ago...

neon neophyte, it should be noted that Toyota has nothing to do with this project, they just sponsored the production of this video.

Calling it the Toyota Solar Tower is a misnomer as it was actually made by Solucar and is called PS10

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thinkbolt : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

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606 days 21 hours ago...

Using all this great tech just to run a steam turbine seems wasteful to me. Losing so much energy to heat is the opposite of efficient, isn`t it? There must be better ways to go direct from sunlight to large-scale electricity, but all the new powerful generation sources always seem to fall back on the old steam turbine model. I LIKE what they`ve done here, but can`t we please get past the musty old steam turbine?

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flying_spaghetti_monster : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

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606 days 19 hours ago...

Looks expensive and impractical.

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barrygillis : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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606 days 13 hours ago...

If there would be a better way of converting sunlight to electricity dont you think they would use it?Oh no thats right the big bad oilcompanies are witholding that technology, even the state of the art nuclear powerplants arent allowed to use it they still have to use the old steam turbine model.

you look simple and cheap FSM, but im sure you could change if you just tried to explain why instead of just stating your dumb thoughts

I want to poke you in the eye with a very hot frenchfry- foamy

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Dallaman : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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606 days 13 hours ago...

what 0 emission?
does that mean itll still use oil?
i hope that oil brings you to a slow painful death

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Sarisel : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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606 days 7 hours ago...

There`s research being conducted with nano-surfaces that mimic the way plants use solar energy for photosynthesis. Check out the BBC "Visions of the Future" series, part 3.

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tobyspeeks : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

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EckJerome, you read NG too?

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