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Hyperion Energy, Solar Tower Company, Plans To Bring Renewable Energy To Western Australia
by ADMIN on FEBRUARY 10, 2012
From EarthTechling’s Pete Danko:

The doubt competence not be if an insanely high solar updraft building gets built, though whose insanely high solar updraft building gets built first. And where.

EnviroMission, a Australian association aiming to use a hothouse outcome and thermal dynamics to furnish electricity in a Arizona desert, is apparently not alone in a ambition. Turns out another Australian regard is operative to build a really identical appetite plant. The second team’s devise is targeted for a outback of Western Australia, where a pivotal duty would be to yield appetite to a endless mining attention in a area.

Hyperion Energy‘s designed devise was created adult by local media in Perth, Australia, late final year, afterwards was picked adult in Jan on a Norway-based purify appetite site Recharge, where we speckled it. At a peek it was transparent a devise is scarcely a spittin’ picture of a EnviroMission building we reported on several weeks ago. In fact, a span have a common lineage: a German engineering organisation Schlaich Bergermann.

Both projects devise to use a immeasurable canopy to trap and feverishness atmosphere that would have nowhere to go though adult by a building during a core of a canopy. Thirty-two turbines would constraint a appetite of a atmosphere as it is sucked into a tower, producing adult to 200 megawatts of power.

In a promotional video, Hyperion says “Schalich Bergermann will pattern a project, manipulate a construction and apparatus designation and afterwards commision a operation to pledge a tower’s performance.”

EnviroMission has a story with Schalich Bergermann, too. EnviroMission’s executive director, Roger Davey, told Perth Now his association “acquired a initial engineering from Schlaich Bergermann, though spent 10 years enlightening a pattern to remonstrate doubtful governments and financiers a thought done blurb sense.”

Having unsuccessful to get a support it indispensable in Australia, EnviroMission set a sights on a U.S. In Oct 2010 it cumulative a appetite squeeze agreement with a Southern California Public Power Authority. Last month, a association announced it had “received a grave joining to yield a whole growth and construction capital” from an unnamed financier, and was carefree of relocating forward soon, theme to due diligence.

Back in Australia, Hyperion says it has purchased a 490-square-mile site about 430 miles adult a Great Northern Highway from Perth. The site has all a attributes for a successful solar updraft tower, according to Hyperion: a good swath of prosaic land; thriving amounts of solar radiation; low risk of earthquakes or cyclones; and vicinity to vital mines and travel routes.

A bit of a furious label in a Hyperion devise is a purpose of Dallas Dempster in a partnership pushing a project. The Perth Now report a 70-year-old Dempster as a “failed entrepreneur” who went broke in 1997 in a issue of what’s famous Down Under as WA Inc, a business and domestic liaison that led to dual Western Australian premiers going to prison.