Sentences with phrase «updraft tower»

RR: A «big» prototype of solar updraft tower has already been built and tested (in Manzanares, Spain, 1982 - 1989).

On a carbon basis, enough air would pass through one 200 MW solar updraft tower to destroy about 0.4 million tons of CO2 - equivalent GHGs per year (at a 25 % net non-CO2 GHG - removal efficiency).

The Wind - Solar Tower is a small to medium size combination VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine) and SUT (solar updraft tower) used to generate electricity.

So even if we only had a small fraction of our energy needs met by such «carbon - negative» solar updraft towers, they still could provide a meaningful contribution to the portfolio of carbon removal solutions

Small - scale solar updraft towers have been built throughout the world, but they can be capital - intensive to build at a large scale, and so no such projects have been undertaken to date.

This many solar updraft towers will take a lot of land — equivalent to the size of Montana (but so will many other carbon removal solutions).

RR: In theory, if all our world's electrical energy needs (by 2050) were satisfied by 200 MW solar updraft towers, one atmospheric volume would pass under them every 15 years.

While we can expect that PV will likely be cheaper in the future, solar updraft towers could provide an economically - viable alternative to «PV + energy storage» for peak load (as solar updraft towers can store thermal energy in the ground for night electricity production to greatly reduce intermittency at minimal additional cost).

Not exact matches

This is because terrestrial hurricanes form when an inflow of air along the ocean surface sops up moisture and rises in a halo of updrafts to create towering columns of rain clouds.

An instrument - laden light aircraft penetrated the towering smoke plume of the fire, registering an 80 mile per hour updraft of hot, buoyant air, followed by a turbulent downdraft.

Turbine exhaust steam condensing (to renew the Rankine cycle) conventionally involves wet cooling, where cooling water from the shell - and - tube steam condensers is sprayed into cooling towers, and an updraft carries vapor from evaporative cooling into the atmosphere.

«The latent heat is an important ingredient in fueling the updrafts that allow the towers to rise to such icy heights, so «in honor» of the role that latent heat plays, the towers are called hot towers,» explained Owen Kelley, a research scientist based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Cirrus clouds — high - altitude clouds of ice crystals — typically form as a byproduct of the life cycle of cumulus towers created by rising updrafts of heated, moist air.