EnviroMission Plans Massive Solar Tower for Arizona
July 25th, 2011I think I first mentioned this on Cryptogon around 2003. Glad I didn’t hold my breath.
Via: Gizmag:
An ambitious solar energy project on a massive scale is about to get underway in the Arizona desert. EnviroMission is undergoing land acquisition and site-specific engineering to build its first full-scale solar tower – and when we say full-scale, we mean it! The mammoth 800-plus meter (2625 ft) tall tower will instantly become one of the world’s tallest buildings. Its 200-megawatt power generation capacity will reliably feed the grid with enough power for 150,000 US homes, and once it’s built, it can be expected to more or less sit there producing clean, renewable power with virtually no maintenance until it’s more than 80 years old. In the video after the jump, EnviroMission CEO Roger Davey explains the solar tower technology, the Arizona project and why he couldn’t get it built at home in Australia.
“once it’s built, it can be expected to more or less sit there producing clean, renewable power with virtually no maintenance until it’s more than 80 years old.”
This is where our civilization’s trajectory finally winds up: disposable mega structures. There are stone buildings around the world that are more than 1000 years old that are still standing and functioning; and this group is bragging about a massive tower that will last barely more than one human lifetime. It seems that we have turned the proverbial hockey stick in every aspect of our society.