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Andasol Power Plant Salt Storage Solar Millenium – Solar Thermal Parabolic Trough Plant
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Andasol Power plant in Spain 3x 50MW power plants with Nitrate and Potassium salt storage 7.5 hours after sun down or cloudy period full plant operation for each of the 50MW plants.
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April 21st, 2010 at 10:06 am
Solar Millennium sold both Andasol 1 &2The is a PR film. The power price is expensive $0.40 per kwhr. The lifetime is 30 years at least. Solar radiation at this site is not the greatest. The US desert southwest is much better. The principal designer of the troughs left Solar Millennium’s engineering company, Flagsol to go to work for Flabeg.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:32 am
i am visiting Spain in October so would love to meet the people who have done this. It is brilliant and we need some positive action like this inour sun-drenched country (Australia). I know you are all working hard to achieve this and thank you for that. We just need some passionate political allies from whatever party will bite the bullet for action. Use that Yes We can! attitude. We will win. The good guys always win!
Quote from Don Chipp: You, people of good will, you can change the world.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:48 am
@tapereeder Slightly more jobs per MWh than Coal plants. and lots more jobs than natural gas plants. So what’s your gripe?
April 21st, 2010 at 11:00 am
looks like crap, nobody working
April 21st, 2010 at 11:20 am
@GrampsNL
These plants are expected to last 30 years. In practice much of the plant should last to 50 years and beyond. Check out the Molten Salt Power Towers as well, in my other videos — Torresol and Solar Reserve
April 21st, 2010 at 11:58 am
Any idea of the useful life of this installation?
Cost per Kw?
April 21st, 2010 at 12:46 pm
ppl like you are flushing the planet down the drain, you will eventually die too, hopefully.
April 21st, 2010 at 1:18 pm
fuck you
April 21st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Congratulations.
April 21st, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Questions: How are the mirrors cleaned, f.ex. when there is sand on them etc? Or can they function when they are full of sand?
What happens if there is water, f.ex. a flood?
How resistent are those mirrors against decompositions, like fast temperature changes?
Greetings
April 21st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
This plant Andasol 1 has 1020MWh of storage and has a capacity factor of around 50%. That means around half of it’s power is delayed sunlight heat delivered from the solar molten salt tanks
April 21st, 2010 at 3:35 pm
This Project is the best for all of us
April 21st, 2010 at 3:37 pm
this video should have millions of hits. This is the damn solution for most energy needs. Clean, low manteniance and not expensive. fuck the oil, fuck the nukes.