At 12:23 PM 18/02/02 +1030, Anthony wrote: >Mildura Rural City Council has welcomed enthusiastically EnviroMission's >announcement that scientific testing has started at Ned's Corner Station >The power station will be based on German designed Solar >Tower technology. It will look like an enormous greenhouse canopy with a >very tall hollow ventilation Tower located at its centre.
It is to be expected that the site will routinely form its own identifier cloud. Whether cloudstreet forms in windy conditions will be interesting to observe. Scale is everything in using passive technologies. Past trials have often been too small in the mid range. At micro level the stuff works differently. Detail issues include the impact on the soil and vegetation around the greenhouse base (dessication and local wind). The unit can be expected to damp down thermal convection within a radius. Gliders will have to have reserve height to go to the mapped source. Some of the tower thermal's energy will be extracted by the turbines in the shaft. The German trial unit was 200m, a 'model' compared to the intended 'real thing'. I don't think the operators will care, just as wind farms don't. One electric winch in a German gliding club is a stationary (built into place) unit powered from a solar photovoltaic array grid connected. Fine if you can always take off the same one way. -- Emilis Prelgauskas B.ARCH ARAIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
