{"id":6694,"date":"2016-03-18T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:30:06","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-israeli-tower-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6694","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – Israeli tower of power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"220px-Solar_troughs_in_the_Negev_desert_of_Israel\"<\/a>Israel is building the world’s tallest tower of power (solar tower) in the Negev desert.\u00a0 Whilst I’m not going to get into the politics of Israel\/Palestine I disagree with actions on both sides.\u00a0\u00a0 However, its fair to say that since 1948 Israel has felt surrounded by enemies and after the 1973 oil shock this has influenced its energy policy to a certain extent.\u00a0 It as we wrote in our book<\/a> became one of the largest utilisers of solar hot water panels (along with Japan).\u00a0 However, despite its sunny disposition its been slow on the solar PV uptake, although in recent years this surged.\u00a0 Still only 10% of Israel’s energy is set to come from renewables by 2020.\u00a0 This tower of power will generate 1% of Israel’s electricity consumption.\u00a0 It works by having many thousands of mirrors (50,000) focus their reflected rays onto a central focal point (240m high).\u00a0 This heats either water or increasingly salt solution up which drives turbines.\u00a0 Using salt allows the heat to be stored for longer so these towers work after dark.<\/p>\n

This tower of power is quite a lot of effort for 121MWp of energy.\u00a0 I wonder whether it might been better to have stuck PV modules on buildings? \u00a0 Its also a potential terrorist target.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel is building the world’s tallest tower of power (solar tower) in the Negev desert.\u00a0 Whilst I’m not going to get into the politics of Israel\/Palestine I disagree with actions on both sides.\u00a0\u00a0 However, its fair to say that since … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,1],"tags":[63,180],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-renewables","category-uncategorized","tag-renewables-2","tag-solar-energy"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - Israeli tower of power - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6694\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6694\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6694\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - 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