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Israel Harnessing Sunshine with World's Tallest Solar Tower


(AP-ABC News) Isaac Scharf and Alon Bernstein - Israel's fledgling solar industry is making a leap forward with a large-scale project boasting a 250-meter solar tower, the world's tallest. When completed by 2018, together the fields will generate enough energy for 130,000 households. The amount of electricity will be comparable to large-scale solar fields in California and Chile. Solar towers use a solar-thermal method: Thousands of mirrors focus the sun's rays onto the tower, heating a boiler that creates steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity. Encircling the Ashalim tower are 50,000 mirrors.
2017-01-06 00:00:00
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