Hyperion Energy, Solar Tower Company, Plans To Bring Renewable...

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.