Huge solar tower in Nevada to generate power for household users

A Federal government-funded massive solar tower is under the final stages of construction in the desert north of Tonopah, Nevada. The 600 foot solar cell-studded skyscraper is meant to produce power for the nearby houses. Situated in the deep desert the huge concrete shaft looks quite striking.

 As it turns operational, the tower will be surrounded by an ocean of mirrors to concentrate more light and heat to the tower.

The solar power plant, called the Crescent Dunes, will utilize the intense heat and unobstructed sunlight in the desert to generate power. Thanks to 10,000 mirrors, also called the heliostats around the location, light from sun will be highly concentrated on the tower. As a result, it can produce a huge amount of power, says Brain Painter, the manager of Solar Reserve Construction.

The intense heat from sun will be traveled through some tubes, which are stuffed with molten salt. As a result, the tower can generate enough amount of power even if the sunlight is not available. Indeed, this innovative technique overcomes the major challenge of making power using solar cells. Since the streams of lava-like salt act like huge batteries, it is easy to create power even if the sun is not shining overhead.

The billion dollar solar tower was constructed in help of federal funds for bringing more reliable and green alternatives for power. As per reports, the government program has now expired and so it will be the last solar project made of federal funds. Anyway, Crescent Dunes is the largest of its kind of solar panel towers for the production of electricity in big amount.

Beach and Howe Tower: a structure green horizon rise Vancouver

A pretty bold architectural proposal by BIG (BJarke Ingels Group), the beach and Howe Tower will form a gateway of welcome to downtown Vancouver. The twisting Tower will rise from a base triangular at 490 feet. With 49 floors, there will be 600 residential units and 9 story podium to House various commercial activities. It will be the highest structures in the southern part and will be the tallest enshrined in Vancouver.


Beach and Tower of Howe in Vancouver / BIG
the 490 feet Beach and Howe Tower mixed-use by BIG Westbank + dialogue + cobalt + FAQ + Buro Happold + Glotman Simpson.

Creation of this structure is strategically essential for Vancouver, will be among the efforts that it is making to become a sustainable and affordable city. The typology of buildings represents the the engineering marvel of creativity through the various twists and turns it takes as it rises.

The design aims to optimize future conditions on the ground, in the air. For example, to ensure that residents are hedged against traffic, the middle of the building portion has been a setback for 30 meters from the Granville bridge. There are no balconies or Windows in this part of the tower. This also prevents that the park adjacent to the Tower of shading.

The rise of the cantilevering Tower allows the optimal rectangular surface construction and increasingly more space to live at the top. These results in a single silhouette which makes the Tower appear different from different angles. Almost resembles a flat side curtains to let people in the room to be. The terraces and roofs of overlooking a spectacular view of the Granville bridge. The exterior façade responds to various solar installations and soon the Tower will endeavour to obtain the certification LEED Gold too.

Tower Plastikoleum recycles plastics

It is without a doubt one of the problems which has always been existing in the field of recycling and waste treatment, and that causes more difficulties, what recycling plastic is not as easy as seems, and it is possible to even make it into solar panels, as we have seen previously.

On this occasion, we have before us a pharaonic project named Plastikoleum, which basically consists of a tower for the transformation of plastic in oil, i.e. reverse its manufacturing process.

Its inventor, akinori Ita, has promised that it is possible to generate 1 liter of oil using 1 kilogram of plastic, which can be later refined into gasoline, kerosene, or diesel, although of course, this is not a fairy tale, but a large amount of energy is needed.

To do this, and thinking provided that you are looking for is to avoid the consumption of hydrocarbons (otherwise would not have sense such creation) are available to its around an enormous amount of solar panels, which must have a capacity of close to 10 MW of solar energy.

Under these conditions, this tower would have the capacity to produce up to 60 barrels of oil-for-time.



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Tower Net Lima in the Philippines

Often when building a skyscraper neglect factors relating to the site is located where the project, especially those relating to the environment and until the subsequent implementation of renewable energy taking advantage of its structure, therefore we highlight the emergence of what will describe below.

It is a complex of three towers which will represent the complex Net Metropolis 5th Avenue the capital of the Philippines (Manila), in the commercial district of fort Bonifacio, and that it will serve as headquarters to large companies in the Asian State counting on a surface covered 1.550.000 square metres, surrounded by some parks full of trees and plants of all kinds.

The first one has been built, under the name of Tower Net Lima, and carries a design planned to be adapted and sustainable structure for providing a great help to the use of renewable energy, also joined a remarkable decrease in power consumption.

We highlight the existence of wind turbines which will enable supply to the Tower, coupled with an innovative system that uses a solar filter special made in aluminium, placed on its periphery, which repels heat (designed to reduce consumption electricity generated by the innumerable installation of air-conditioning, something common in offices)

This joined other engineering looking to take advantage of everything that eventually is discarded, as for example the water from the Air conditioner, which would be stored in a special containers for cleaning and irrigation of the Park.

 

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