World's Largest Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant in California's Desert

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

[brucea]

Interesting video but if you want me to subscribe STOP RINGING THAT STUPID BELL AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF YOUR IT IS VERY LOUD AND EXTREMELY

[christianlemur]

I flew over this on my flight to Vegas super cool.

[VBelinski]

Nope the largest concentrated solar powered plant is built in Morocco it called Noor and it's producing 510MW with additional photovoltaic 72MW.

[thebassassin]

The one in Chile has to be bigger than this. The main tower there is 800+ft tall

[bigbeast]

driven past this before in my traveling days. was pretty lit

[MrTomengle]

Built on public land that they probably got for free. OTOH, there is not much else you could do with all that dirt.

[sk]

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?

[Zaque-TV]

Lmao the mirrors aren't heating solar panels they're heating molten salt you goof

[ANJA-mjto]

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.

[RefugeeTrailChallenge]

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.

[kyleeames]

If they figured out how to make that focal point small enough, and inject a plasma into the focal point, could they produce fusion?

[windowviews]

The life span is 'many years'?🤔

[kiernanmurphy]

They should make all the mirrors solar panels

[ebuksever]

Does it still generate power at night time?

[leemathoo]

I think CSP is the future, There's nothing more powerful than the Sun

[roirat]

In November 25, 2015 Abengoa started insolvency proceedings which could lead to Spain's largest bankruptcy on record, after a Gonvarri said it would not inject 350 million euros into the engineering and renewables company.[26][27] In a 2016 effort to avoid bankruptcy, Abengoa is seeking to reduce its size by 30 percent by selling subsidiaries.[28]

On February 15, 2016, a Nebraska grain dealer filed a petition to force Abengoa Bioenergy into bankruptcy so as to recover moneys owed to them for past corn deliveries.[29]

On March 29, 2016, Abengoa filed for bankruptcy in the United States.[30]

It pronounced - Bechtol[ beck' tõll ] , dumb promo for a failed boondoggle on the backs of US citizens and taxpayers.

[mdsohajgazi]

I can make electricity in a completely new way without any cost if someone helps me

[Banga]

It has only one biggest drawback. Too many moving parts.

[andrewgrubb]

"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.

[markjmaxwell]

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

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