Solar power station in Spain works at night

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  • čas přidán 17. 03. 2012
  • A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night. The Gemasolar station, up and running since last May, stands out in the plains of Andalusia. Duration: 1:51.

Komentáře • 44

  • @youtubezombies
    @youtubezombies Před 7 lety +18

    my left ear enjoyed this

  • @Stephanthesearcher
    @Stephanthesearcher Před 10 lety +19

    it was that expensive because everything was new and experimental, building it in serie wont cost half as much.
    land consumption?
    this technology is desinged to be build in unused desert areas, ok for spain ideal for north africa. look at how much areas of desert you have in the usa and mexico. it will work even better, compared to spain, as your desert areas are more south with better angle and duration of sun irradiation

  • @germanpalomares2512
    @germanpalomares2512 Před 8 lety +8

    Spain is pioneer in solar energy production

  • @STEVEACER777
    @STEVEACER777 Před 9 lety +4

    It is a very interesting idea, like a solar oven but bigger.

  • @davidh.4395
    @davidh.4395 Před 10 lety +2

    better than photovoltaics

  • @MattPhelps229
    @MattPhelps229 Před 10 lety +2

    yes, the salt is just used for the heat transfer, just like a water heater. The sun reflects and melts the salt into a liquid, the they use the heat off it to generate power

  • @markjmaxwell9819
    @markjmaxwell9819 Před 19 dny

    It's a great power generation system if the right weather conditions are available such as in Australia and Africa. And if reduced emmisions are the goal with the ability to run 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
    😎🇦🇺👍

  • @AliDurrani
    @AliDurrani Před 11 lety +2

    Nice Step for Earth.

  • @701983
    @701983 Před 10 lety +3

    Power production on demand, 24 hours a day. On sunny days at least. Sounds great. And is great.
    But there is no rose without a thorn: It's very expensive, even compared to other renewables. And overall efficiency is low, that means high land consumption.

    • @wallan2066
      @wallan2066 Před 9 lety

      You would have to think that the mirrors could go up in levels and still get the same exposure to the sun.................reducing land use......................Thank you.

  • @sundaydiver
    @sundaydiver Před 12 lety +1

    That is absolutely true.

  • @thatwas4213
    @thatwas4213 Před 6 lety +1

    Puerto Rico can use one of those. It only make scene they have a lot of sun and no oil.

  • @deangermeten5629
    @deangermeten5629 Před 10 lety +1

    It's rather big and expensive. Why not just plow resonant tank circuits into stages till reaching the power output one needs? (It works for Romulans.)

  • @bydehfence1
    @bydehfence1 Před 11 lety

    SHARING FOR THE WORLD TO KNOW........

  • @JohnWatersJH2o
    @JohnWatersJH2o Před 12 lety +4

    Why not place two stations in the desert, one on the USA side and the other on the Mexico side? Thermosolar Power at night. Cheaper than Nuclear Power.

    • @JohnWatersJH2o
      @JohnWatersJH2o Před 7 lety +2

      I forgot about this post, back on '12. '18 is knocking on our doorstep and Nothing been done.

  • @yaronostress007
    @yaronostress007 Před 12 lety

    What technologies are behind?

  • @pastorgoof
    @pastorgoof Před 7 měsíci

    can this be done in the ocean?

  • @Nutzername36
    @Nutzername36 Před 11 lety

    look up wiki. its basically molten salts that are stored in hough isolated tanks ;)

  • @shannonamend
    @shannonamend Před 6 lety

    I made it by myself. I used Avasva solutions for that.

  • @Flopsaurus
    @Flopsaurus Před 5 lety +1

    Light to salt, salt to steam, steam to turbine, turbine to generator. That's a lot of lost energy.

    • @DRightOne1
      @DRightOne1 Před 4 lety +1

      The sunlight or "fuel" is free and the salt stores the energy for several hours. There are few other options with a solar plant to run after dark.

    • @Ont785
      @Ont785 Před 2 lety

      You can make the same illogical argument for solar panels.
      Sun to solar voltaic, voltaic to battery through wires, battery back through wires to inverters then to end user?

  • @mb4lunch
    @mb4lunch Před 11 lety

    ObamNey. Robamo. Same difference.

  • @futurehipay
    @futurehipay Před 11 lety

    no army huh? I really like your solar energy plants, I think I will claim them for my country.

  • @ZubairKhan-vs8fe
    @ZubairKhan-vs8fe Před 4 lety +2

    Its horrible when they use metric measurements and don't convert to US.
    He says they power 30 000 spanish houses. How many American houses is that?
    😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @SKGOELDELHI
    @SKGOELDELHI Před 11 lety +1

    So what?what is the Big deal. In india, we use streets light keeping it on in the daytime also. sometimes it doesnt work in the nights.

  • @SpanishInAustralia
    @SpanishInAustralia Před 12 lety +1

    now my coutry have to make over 550 of those with will cost 111.111.000.000 is better to use money for this instead of salving banks our army cost is 12.000.000.000 our public heal care is 100.000.000.000 if you make public heal care private and army disappear we have enought money to 100% solar energy

  • @carrascoamadorlaura
    @carrascoamadorlaura Před 11 lety

    lol

  • @carrascoamadorlaura
    @carrascoamadorlaura Před 11 lety

    Que Mierda