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Water tanks smooth out the energy available from a solar power plant

(15/06/2009)

Claus Volkening, 23, of the University of Portsmouth, has designed and laboratory tested a solar energy storage design which makes clean, cheap electricity available to all, even at night. His working model of a solar updraft tower uses water storage tanks to solve the problem of existing solar power plants which only generate electricity when the sun shines. A prototype solar updraft tower was built in Spain and later destroyed in a stor... [more]

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