Each cleanup action is one huge step towards clean planet

We are not fooling ourselves – some more big steps need to be made to get us there.

No group, organisation or country who is able to clean Earth alone

We have arrived to a doorstep where we need to come together to pass through.

We need ecologically intelligent consumption

Each one of us can make a big difference just by becoming more aware about our choices as a consumer – to buy less, to favor products that have been produced without harming the environment and always using any chance to give new life to already used products.

We need sustainable design and production

The choices that we have are born not in the store, but in the heads of the designers and producers.

People must: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Respect yourself, enjoy and appreciate what you already have and you will discover that you don’t need that much stuff to begin with. Sometimes your old is someone else’s new and vice versa

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Gemasolar Power Plant In Spain Has Been Inaugurated

Gemasolar Power Plant In Spain Has Been Inaugurated
It was inaugurated on October 4, Gemasolar ugly solar power plant in Andalusia, Spain territory, which motion be able to take electricity 24 hours for 25,000 families, accept to the molten saline to be enraged once again 500 degrees. A cutting-edge facility.

To the tenacity someplace experts say that the sun motion enthusiastic calm in Seville at evening. The facility motion be able to take electricity 24 hours for 25,000 families. Gemasolar extends once again an aspect as large as 260 football fields and is located sideways the route that connects Seville to Cordoba. Santiago Arias, profound leader of the focal point, points out that it is a solar power plant is inaccessible in the world, who correspondingly stand because the sun has set. Strictly it is called a thermal power concentration. No photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight power in watts. And yet, a plant of ugly panels brutally the growth, which is in shape in the focal point of the composition. On the subject of 2,650 mirrors that publicize daylight of the sun towards the top of the lighthouse.

To maximize the concentration of solar energy, any of the heliostats of 110 total meters is scheduled to smidgen the reach of the sun. Bombarded in thousands of solar beams, on top of the growth, the molten saline (or, someplace appointed, a cocktail of potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate) is brought to 565 degrees Celsius. Inwardly a steam exchanger someplace wet circulates, as in a nuclear power plant, the far-off steam of the saline produces mist that drives a typical turbine, supplied by Siemens.

Here this time, from 19.30, the sun heats up the growth. But this does not keep away Gemasolar hoist to contain the turbine restriction for other 15 hours. The energy focused by the mirrors is such that the saline could in conjecture calm better steam, but subsequently it would pass better confirmation to cumbersome temperatures, notwithstanding these are better chic.

For this composition the center amounted to 250 million euros. Torresol, the task that bent and runs the task, belongs to the 60% Spanish task Sener work. The take a breather of the urban (40%) is in the hands of the emirate of Abu Dhabi nap the task Masdar, which invests profusely in renewable energy.

Refinement to its continued purpose, Gemasolar, in a nominal output of 20 megawatts, would take 400 megawatt hours a day. That is four period better solar power plant of the selected of France, which motion be built in Curbans, Provence. The later, in spite of everything, motion be matter to discontinuous day-night, and assiduous to the get ahead of of exhaust.