Sentences with phrase «onto water boilers»

The water would be used in seawater greenhouses and a concentrated solar power operation, in which mirrors focus sunlight onto water boilers to push steam - powered turbines.

Not exact matches

There was rain dripping through the skylight into this huge room onto a great mass of rusting boilers and turbines, and a great pool of water below.

The «first flux» test was the focus of heliostats (adjustable motorized mirrors) onto the boiler to slowly raise the boiler's water temperature to just below the point of steam generation.

However, instead of using fossil fuels or nuclear power to create the steam, BrightSource uses sunlight, reflected by thousands of small mirrors called heliostats onto a boiler filled with water that sits atop a tower.