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World's Largest Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant in California's Desert
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2021
- This video is about Worl's Largest Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant Located in California's Desert. It's Ivanpah Solar Power Facility and its Capacity is 392 megawatts that power around 94,400 average American Homes.
#california #solar
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I agree, I fucking can't stand it when it's used. Always dislike video and never subscribe. I love how they try and explain how to use youtube as if you're a new user who's never seen a computer before... incredibly infuriating. I'll subscribe if your content is good... end of story.
I flew over this on my flight to Vegas super cool.
So have a few time it's amazing from the air ,it looks like some kind of alien spaceport.
driven past this before in my traveling days. was pretty lit
The one in Chile has to be bigger than this. The main tower there is 800+ft tall
IDEA -The Sahara Desert turned organic farm, creating food, drink, jobs, profit: EU/US/investor funded. The mirrors used for the desalination plant protecting the ground from drying out/scorching. Truck loads of organic material from the agricultural sector. Rain worms, top soil/dirt/sand, seeds for ground breaking plants, desalinated water. Public funding argumentation: aid to Africa that will keep on giving, stem flow of migrants, reduce global warming and the spread of desert, increase responsibly sourced food supplies.
Nope the largest concentrated solar powered plant is built in Morocco it called Noor and it's producing 510MW with additional photovoltaic 72MW.
Built on public land that they probably got for free. OTOH, there is not much else you could do with all that dirt.
Isn't it more sensible for California to invest in Nuclear Energy to construct Gen-3+ PWRs on its Coasts to generate Electricty with No intermittency issues?
Yes, but nothing California does is sensible - especially when it comes to energy and regulations.
Awesome ❤️
Lmao the mirrors aren't heating solar panels they're heating molten salt you goof
It's not the same technology as I didn't see the usual salt holding tanks.
@@wjatube Its called HTF (heat transfer fluid) and there is no holding talks because once it cools it solidifies. Their is a giant mass at the top of the tower and they keep it hot at night by burning natural gas. This video is nothing but a lie.
Nice video 👌👏
If they figured out how to make that focal point small enough, and inject a plasma into the focal point, could they produce fusion?
Yes
Check out the national ignition facility. It uses lasers to focus energy on to a bead of deuterium to collapse it into a nuclear fusion reaction
Man-made fusion is not just about focusing energy. It also requires containment.
highest temp youn could achieve by concentration is sun's surface temp
Valuable information which utilizes a unique helosat control system. It seams they have applied to heliostat system smaller size such it was successfully developed for farms application generating electric power and heating water from aqufiers - pumping for irrigation in remote areas that are dislocated. They are based on the ~azimuth and elevation heliostat panel angle~ and each memorized separate by quantum mechanics. But this big one can or mybe not, we don't know, change whole climate system as well as hydrologic circulation. We research only but global states rule.
why the glass is not covered tho
What’s the efficiency?
I think CSP is the future, There's nothing more powerful than the Sun
Who Let Them Build ta thing der?
awesome
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It pronounced - Bechtol[ beck' tõll ] , dumb promo for a failed boondoggle on the backs of US citizens and taxpayers.
The life span is 'many years'?🤔
10 to 12 years... Isen't it mostly in disrepair already??
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Anyone else see the thing lately 🤣
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Does it still generate power at night time?
Yes, 24/7/365 the molten salt holds heat (10-15 hours)and then can create steam to a turbine as needed on demand . The plant uses NG to raise the cooled salt temp in the morning and also to to aim the ~20% of the heliostats. needed to operate during the day, that realeses about 75% less carbon than traditional plants. Its not perfect but a start at industrilat grade solar similar to Hover Dam level production. Looks awesome as you drive by almost like existing in a futurisic sci-fi movie . The birds though sometimes get fried and it takes up a lot of land. No so good for the Desert Tortoise land area.
This plant stsrted off only producing 1/3 capacity and was seen as a failure and almost got decomissioned. However it was revived now reaches at least 85% capacity from what I read a few years ago. It looks like this tech could improve with AI mirror guidance. Other systems use parabolic mirrors to superhaet fluid nearby or even sand,
@@tombyrne6433 hoover dam is like 30 of these. hover dam also cost about 730 million as opposed to 4 billion. there is literally no reason something like this should cost 4 billion dollars. they need to automated the production of plants like this for future colonization of other planets anyways. Mirrors don't cost that much.... neither do things to aim mirrors when you buy a million of them. the first of these will cost the most hopefully they will become easier and easier to install.
The Hoover damn relies on water which has gotten lower year by year. The sun seems to be more reliable I guess
@@tombyrne6433 No, this plant doesn't use molten salt (just water) and has no storage system.
@@andrefruth41not much water in the mojave desert fam
"Nice" video but lacking any real data. How about highlighting that it was meant to be "proven" technology with take-off agreements which it couldn't honor. Only after it failed to deliver did the owners start talking about a 4-year commissioning period. After 4 years it operated at 76% of its design production. Its best production has been 91% of its design production in 2020 - 7 years after start-up. The last 5 years have averaged 80% of the expected 940 GWh/year. It's using x4 the amount of natural gas to kick-start every morning. The Capacity Factor has averaged about 21% (expected 28.5%) which is about the same as could be expected from a PV plant in this location. Even in Australia, which is partially good for utility solar PV plant the CF is 17%. This technology has a looong way to go to be reliable, commercial and profitable (despite the extensive govt grants and low interest loans.) However, a great way to improve your company's ESG rating.
How much per watt$
It uses natural gas also and it is connected to the grid. It is waste of time and money.
They should make all the mirrors solar panels
They absorb the energy though surely
There is a solar cell plant nearby this plant
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I can make electricity in a completely new way without any cost if someone helps me
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DUST AND DIRT BLOWS ONTO THE MIRRORS???
Helios One
how many came here after hope that help guy😂
It has only one biggest drawback. Too many moving parts.
Yes
@@UnboxingEngineering honestly as poor or under developed country like our's we do need such technology. We can't make solar PV but can make solar thermal.
Another design that l had thought of was to have the heliostat and a solar panel side by side on the same movable mount with the heliostat directing the concentrated light at a fixed point on a tower. The super hot air generated at the top of the tower would then run through insulated pipework to an insulated tank with pipes winding through thermal sand to heat the sand to use as thermal storage. A bypass pipe is used when the thermal storage tank is at it's correct temperature allowing the super hot air to keep recirculating. The super hot air stored in the insulated tank can be recirculated back into the system at night or when the temperature drops below a certain point. Using the super hot air to power the 250+kW Sterling engines connected to generators in a power room to create electricity with the power room located after the thermal storage tank. If the sterling engines have initial start issues the generators they are connected to can be used in a similar way to a starter motor to help start them. After the power room the super hot air could be kept recirculating by a fan and be piped back to the power tower to be reheated and kept recirculating. The efficiency is very high because everything is insulated and no steam turbine is needed to create the power. The solar panels on the same movable mount as the heliostats would be connected to a big battery with some of the power from the battery used to power the onsite systems.
Then it can all be connected to the main electrical grid.
A 100% renewable energy powered design that can run 24/7 and has never been tried before. The calculations have been verified and the design will work......😎🇦🇺👍🥳
Designed by.....Mark J Maxwell.....
I don't like it.
Should be on the ground and clear bent magnifier just over the top
I wonder how many animals and birds this kills ? It is in a desert so I couldn't imagine a lot of wildlife being out there
There’s plenty of life in the desert lol
Light attracted insects and birds came for the food. More than 3000 birds are dead annually because of heat.
@@zawmyohtun9503that is barely anything tho
@@-BigChungusA lot of those birds are endangered species of falcons and hawks…so yeah it is a lot
Think about the men that build these things so others can have power ❤
The Indian version is far better. It gets 1400 degrees at the boiler. Also much cheaper.
Bad, really bad for the environment
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Yes, coal is bad, hydro is bad, wind is bad, CSP is bad, PV is bad (they're quite nasty chemically, can't be just dumped, non-recyclable, expensive to dispose of). Oh, and nuclear is bad, too. But we need electricity, and kinda used to having it 24/7. Choosing the least bad solution to complement each other is the best compromise we can make. I think that getting off coal _by any means as soon as possible_ is good, tho. It kills not only birds, but people with its emissions, and at an incomparably larger scale.