SOLAR POWER STATION
February 1st, 2002
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in SydneyTHE WORLD'S first large-scale conventional solar power station is to be built in the blisteringly hot Australian outback in a A$700 million (UK Pounds 270 million) project.The station's circular solar collector will measure 5km in diameter and the collecting tower will soar 1km into the sky.The height will maximise power output by taking advantage of the 1C (check) drop in temperature that comes with every 100m gain in height, an equation that facilitates an updraft effect which drives the turbines.The air underneath the collector is ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.