this is best solition for (now) 7x24 energy build. 1. li-ion battary manufacturing processes are harms the environment. if there is a lot of space and source is heat; best option is to store heat as heat. so this way remove the charge discharge and regulation losses. 2. technology is not the same as the 1980s; mirror/glass break stayed in ancient times. The sensors used are more accurate. MCUs and software more efficient. mechanical technologies progress has come a long way. thermal insulation is not like in 80's
@@becuasegoodreason You can use thermal storage from electricity too. Normal solar panels, which are simpler than concentrators, are becoming so cheap this would make sense.
@@illuminate4622 Yes, although if you were using normal solar panels, then placing them in a desert like here wouldn't be the best place, since their efficiency is decreasing with higher temperatures.
There are automated systems powered by the solar panels themselves to clean sand from solar pannels. Don't think you are the first person to think there should be an easier way to clean pannels.
That guy would be just driving around with his vehicle with a robotic arm to cleans the panels, or maybe pressing a button to activate the auto clean feature within the panels... Not a big deal. Welcome to the 21st century bro !!!
Grandious Project. Chile is a nation with lots of resources and landscaping variations. There is a high potential from theocean to the desertfields. Not to forgetits grateful soil to grow fruits, and produce quality wines. A beautiful country!
@Mruuuczek It has 17.5 hours of heat storage. I assume near the end of that the power drops off as the molten salt cools but I didn't see a power graph of that.
Are those the projects made by the Spanish company Abengoa?? No single word for them and I only know because we have few of them in Sanlucar, outside Sevilla probably for over 10 years now.
Should have watched what happened to Las Vegas and California ones before losing 1.4 billion dollars... Let's see what it looks like in 10 years!! Green energy is the biggest scam ever!!
@@CBielski87 No photovoltaics here, those are mirrors. The heat of sunshine is concentrated and used to make steam to drive turbines. The medium for transferring the heat is molten salt and retains a enough heat after sunset to generate power through the night. Robust, solves the intermittency problem of renewables, and extremely low environmental impact. It's a great tech if you have a handy desert for it.
@Joaquín Urrutia California has many along active fault lines so it defs is doable, esp with 3rd generation reactors. There's no cleaner, cheaper, grander source or energy than nuclear
@@Drakey_Fenix I honestly think it would be cheaper then the 1.4 Billion spent on this solar farm and way more efficient. Your ROI would be way higher with Nuclear.
There was one just like this built in Spain I think, years ago. The world needs more of this. The mirrors need to be cleaned regularly, so there are jobs in low cost maintenance. It a win win.
@@FuriousImp 1) i dont own a cat 2) cats kill common birds, not endangered one's, 3) I'm not saying we should not use renewable energy, all I'm saying is we should take measures to reduce such accidents For example, parabolic trough solar do not have any bright spots to which birds get attracted & it would be safer for them, we should use such technologies
Why do you think it is dead? State funds this for over a decade now. In fact, some even want to force new build houses to have solar energy technology installed on the roof.
@@geisterfahreruberholer2171 Du verwechselst Fotovoltaik mit Solarthermisch. Letzteres ist eigentlich obsolet, weil Aufwendig im Unterhalt (viele Tracker, Spiegel sauber halten).
It is great to see this. Great for Chile. For most places, the cost of Photovoltaic electricity had come down so much compared to other electrical energy source, people put in PV instead. But the industry has been working on reducing the costs of these things. This is still probably cheaper than nuclear.
Thermosolar uses mirrors to concentrate on the POwer Tower to heat molten salts (perchlorate) to about 500C, which are pumped into insulated storage tanks. From there, they use pass the molten salts to heat exchangers to produce steam and power a conventional steam turbine generator. The plant can make electricity 24/7.
@@minustah2132 california dont have the level of radiation of the atacama desert, that why in chile is so much cheap have solar power and it will be use to produce green hydrogen with many other green energies and key minerals that make chile the world lider in green power
@@morganstraussg its not so efficient compared to latest solar panel technology used by SunPower and windmills of GE that the US currently have..US also investing in mini nuclear reactors like general atomic EM2 and fusion technology.
One day in the near future all deserts in the world will have solar generators like these - cheap and clean natural energy . It will be the ultimate gentrification project.
@@vishalgiraddi5357 Atacama is the highest, driest desert on earth. While it does have an ecosystem it's not like this is in the middle of a major migration route.
Go find out how much destruction has been caused to the environment somewhere else in order to extract rare minerals to produce those panels. How about the batteries? What is the destination of the batteries after their lifespan has been reached?
18 million+ people reside in Chile. This station provides enough to power 360,000 homes. How does one get 8% and my accurate representation of the impact is removed??? Fascinating.
@@DJBillionator Not Chilean, but his numbers are pretty precise! Total household energy use in Chile is 50.763 GWh, out of that, 25.7% is electric consumption (the remaining 3/4 are heating, in the form of wood and natural gas). That means that all of Chile's 6.3 million households consume a little over 13k GWh of electricity a year. Cerro Dominador (the CSP project in the video) produces 950 GWh a year (Annual net output), which is over 7% of household electric consumption, so it's pretty close.
Straya.....where the fossil fuel industry receives $20 billion of subsidies annually and when energy companies move out of thermal plants the gov uses tax payers money to build a $600 million gas fired plant after they pushed a now non-viable CSG project (Narrabri) through the system. A total disgrace.
@@valentbrilliantinowidysety4266 Yeah, I saw the news about that. That is so crazy, mate. Big lobbies going on. How do you fight them when they ally with the local governments?
Australia has a much more advanced solar thermal plant up and running. The heat is also used to desalinate salt water and grow plants as well as generate power. Coles sells the products.
not efficient enough, the benefits don't outweigh the costs. rather invest in nuclear energy which is actually safer. (more people have died installing solar panels than from nuclear related deaths in last 30 years). for a developing country like India that will produce a lot of power for relatively low cost. imagine your monthly electricity bill being a hundred rupees.
The cost to build and operate will have zero return on investment in multiple lifetimes. Google stopped investing in commercial solar after spending $300 million on Ivanpah Solar. Read about it…a $1.3 billion solar plant producing maybe $12 million worth of electricity annually…minus maintenance costs. A single mirror is $15,000….and requires a special cleaning fluid. And keep in mind…when the Sun goes down so does this plant
its very bad for the birds. they fry instantly if they fly through it. And for a country like India with good bird density, its should not be preferred.
Its very expensive..that’s one of the reason they only built 3 of this in Mojave dessert california it can generate almost 400mw and can power 300000 homes even during night time.
Same here man. I'm just thankful that I'm not the only person thinking on this level. There's hope for the human race after all...so long as we thin out the population of those gaw'damn Deathclaws & Cazadors...
Yes. But reliability is the key. It can generate electricity 24/7... there is no dependence on external sources of energy. Just the sun an it shines a lot in that part of the world.
@@sebdiaz1852 no , it’s not most reliable, nuclear and coal are most reliable, Chile being poor nation should not bother of being carbon neutral, as it has hardly added to global warming,
In india 2 largest solar plants of more than 2300 meggawatt already made and third one of 3800 meggawatt are under construction these three projects are providing 35000000 unitd of electricity everyday
How does this have anything to do with ultraviolet levels? It's mostly infrared at the opposite end of the spectrum that does the heating. Yes, the Atacama is incredibly high and the atmosphere is thin. That's why so many nations want to put telescopes there.
@@markthomasson5077 UA-cam has a header that says this is a German public broadcast service. I don't expect the anchor to know. But I would expect some level of competence from the script writer, proofreader or editor before this ever got in front of the presenter.
@@floorskin1 Well, the initial investment is quite high, but in operation costs we are only talking about routine maintenance. It does not consume any fuel, it doesn't need any raw material to produce that energy. So in terms of OPEX it's essentially free.
Intentionally misleading (AKA dishonest) "energy for homes" blurb that vastly undersells the challenge. Homes are not the big energy consumer. Those homes contain stuff, and those people need transportation and so on. Most of that energy is not consumed in the home, it is consumed on a road or in a factory somewhere. Disregarding intermittency issues (not solved by the little amount of storage afforded in this project, so it still relies to a smaller extent on fossil fuels), the net output is expected to be 950 GWh per year. Chile consumes 36.1 MTOE per year, or about 2700 W continuous for each person. You can do that more efficiently with electricity, but Chile will head towards ~10KW continuous per capita like the west because they don't like poverty anymore than we do. So at 2700 W, that actually powers 40 500 people, which is about 20 000 homes. If they head toward western living standards; which of course they will; that's only 10 000 people. You will need 1550 power plants of this type (and quite a bit of fossil fuel backup) to give Chileans a western living standard, not crammed into favelas and forced into energy poverty. And they are all full of moving panels in a desert that need frequent cleaning with fresh water, constant maintenance of leaking pipes. Solar thermal has been tried repeatedly and found to be a pretty terrible technology. What are they doing this time that will change that? Nothing, that I can see.
There is always a less exciting and less wonderful reality behind the proclamations of politicians, no matter what country or what language they speak…
@Imperial Terra except when nuclear power plants leak and/or wear out, then what? also, what do you do with the spent fuel rods? sell them for nuclear weapons?
I am really proud of the Chile people for trying to bring solar green energy to South America to help lower carbon emissions and take advantage of there countries high deserts to produce power. I wish America would begin to invest in Solar power to help reduce the carbon emissions and bring about cleaner energy.
America is not the country that it was once, or probably this is America doesn't cut it for this new world with changing climates and having it's citizen help out for the benefit of all, I'm an American but a rational one.
We have a billion taxpayer dollars at Crescent Dunes, look it up. Then check into the Ivanpah problems. I hope they fixed the bugs for this one, but I doubt it. Mechanically complex systems, dependent on precision don’t perform well in harsh desert environments.
Congrats, it seems to me the topography of Chile should support numerous green options, this one due to its high elevation desert and possibly wind due to its many mountainous corridors and possibly others if showpacks generate enough water flow.
I thought it was generally accepted that this technology kinda sucked? They built a few in these power plants in the US which ended up being a disappointment in terms of how expensive they were and how little energy they ended up generating.
@@voyager11221 Nuclear power is the most expensive type of electricity when you subtract government subsidies and consider the disposal of radioactive waste, for which there are still no suitable repositories in the world. FUSION is the way to go.
@@jamwhenever Coal is having a quite bad energy efficiency, between other things. It is quite costly and it has the bigest number of deaths per unit of energy produced. I'm afraid that its time has really passed.
That was taken in Mojave desert california ivanpah solar electric generating plant they have 3 towers that can produce more than 392mw and can power 100000 homes even during night time.
Really cool, way to go Chile!
That technology is obsolete and the mirrors break easily.
Idk how people still trust politicians
this is best solition for (now) 7x24 energy build.
1. li-ion battary manufacturing processes are harms the environment.
if there is a lot of space and source is heat; best option is to store heat as heat. so this way remove the charge discharge and regulation losses.
2. technology is not the same as the 1980s;
mirror/glass break stayed in ancient times.
The sensors used are more accurate. MCUs and software more efficient.
mechanical technologies progress has come a long way.
thermal insulation is not like in 80's
@@becuasegoodreason bs
@@becuasegoodreason You can use thermal storage from electricity too. Normal solar panels, which are simpler than concentrators, are becoming so cheap this would make sense.
@@illuminate4622
Yes, although if you were using normal solar panels, then placing them in a desert like here wouldn't be the best place, since their efficiency is decreasing with higher temperatures.
I bet every Chilean is very happy with this project, except for the guy who has to clean sand dust off the mirror
Hey, at least even that would be a job, right?
There are automated systems powered by the solar panels themselves to clean sand from solar pannels. Don't think you are the first person to think there should be an easier way to clean pannels.
Hes nincompoop
That guy would be just driving around with his vehicle with a robotic arm to cleans the panels, or maybe pressing a button to activate the auto clean feature within the panels... Not a big deal. Welcome to the 21st century bro !!!
Funny every other one that has been built out side of the Arctic has failed! Will this be any different?
Grandious Project. Chile is a nation with lots of resources and landscaping variations. There is a high potential from theocean to the desertfields. Not to forgetits grateful soil to grow fruits, and produce quality wines. A beautiful country!
You know what they call a bird that flies over that a flamer. Destroying local bird population.
@Mruuuczek It has 17.5 hours of heat storage. I assume near the end of that the power drops off as the molten salt cools but I didn't see a power graph of that.
Not to mention, it's delicious!
We need to build these in Australia. We have huge regions of blisteringly hot desert.
God told Scomo to burn more coal.
Contact Spanish makers Abengoa.
Are those the projects made by the Spanish company Abengoa??
No single word for them and I only know because we have few of them in Sanlucar, outside Sevilla probably for over 10 years now.
Port Augusta SA
Their oil and coal mining company owns the country.
Go chile Go. Love from India 🇮🇳♥
Wow! Kudos to Chile!
Good for Chile! ❤️ Respect
good job Chile, you are making an example for the world to follow
No dude, is all a lie, the people is never going to benefit from that power plant.....
@@guillermoperezsantos then who will benefit?
@@guillermoperezsantos Athens who’s gonna Benefit? The government. If it cost down cost for electricity then someone benefits
@@guillermoperezsantos ????????????? How ignorant can u be?
Should have watched what happened to Las Vegas and California ones before losing 1.4 billion dollars...
Let's see what it looks like in 10 years!!
Green energy is the biggest scam ever!!
Congratulations to my Chilean friends. This is the way to go.
Desde Argentina 😉
for $1.4B you can have a generation 3 Nuclear reactor that can power 1M homes
@@CBielski87 many countries in south america don't have the means to build them, especially those with newer tech like the one in finland.
@@CBielski87 No photovoltaics here, those are mirrors. The heat of sunshine is concentrated and used to make steam to drive turbines. The medium for transferring the heat is molten salt and retains a enough heat after sunset to generate power through the night. Robust, solves the intermittency problem of renewables, and extremely low environmental impact. It's a great tech if you have a handy desert for it.
@@Firebuck lol i pasted from another comment but yes, thank you i edited.
@Joaquín Urrutia California has many along active fault lines so it defs is doable, esp with 3rd generation reactors.
There's no cleaner, cheaper, grander source or energy than nuclear
Good for Chile 🇨🇱 they will make their descendants proud
Well done.... Future of humanity is marvellous if we live friendly with nature....
U r uniformed brother.
@Gregor Heisenhorn That is much more expensive
@@Drakey_Fenix I honestly think it would be cheaper then the 1.4 Billion spent on this solar farm and way more efficient. Your ROI would be way higher with Nuclear.
@@diegotr1903 why dear ??
Yeah 1.4 billion for a little energy. Great waste.
There was one just like this built in Spain I think, years ago. The world needs more of this. The mirrors need to be cleaned regularly, so there are jobs in low cost maintenance. It a win win.
unfortunately birds get attracted to the tower and they get killed
@@vishalgiraddi5357 Do you own a cat?
Or do you own a window, the number two killer of birds?
@@l-dogtheman1685 It's not even a small margin.
@@FuriousImp 1) i dont own a cat
2) cats kill common birds, not endangered one's, 3) I'm not saying we should not use renewable energy, all I'm saying is we should take measures to reduce such accidents
For example, parabolic trough solar do not have any bright spots to which birds get attracted & it would be safer for them, we should use such technologies
Very good journalism. Keep up the good work.
Well done Chile, this will really help the countries development😄
@Gmontgalloway oh hey galloway👋 what corner of earth are you, we're a rare breed 😆
You should take engineering and economy classes to understand this is a bad project and a bad policy
@Gmontgalloway probably forced out of Scotland by English man 😭
And rich people in Chile
I hope that was irony XD.
Nice! Well done, Chile!
Nice one from Chile!
I'm glad solar thermal hasn't been given up for dead.
Why do you think it is dead? State funds this for over a decade now. In fact, some even want to force new build houses to have solar energy technology installed on the roof.
@@geisterfahreruberholer2171 Du verwechselst Fotovoltaik mit Solarthermisch. Letzteres ist eigentlich obsolet, weil Aufwendig im Unterhalt (viele Tracker, Spiegel sauber halten).
@@Yahweh42069 only one is good for the planet???
@@Yahweh42069 varies according to conditions
@@geisterfahreruberholer2171 Well its been around for more than 100 years, yet only very little people using it.
It is great to see this. Great for Chile. For most places, the cost of Photovoltaic electricity had come down so much compared to other electrical energy source, people put in PV instead. But the industry has been working on reducing the costs of these things. This is still probably cheaper than nuclear.
Thermosolar uses mirrors to concentrate on the POwer Tower to heat molten salts (perchlorate) to about 500C, which are pumped into insulated storage tanks. From there, they use pass the molten salts to heat exchangers to produce steam and power a conventional steam turbine generator. The plant can make electricity 24/7.
would like to visit chile!
Me: Imagine how great this is for renewable energy!
My Brain: Imagine Euclid's C Finder with THIS baby on the back end!
When I saw this video, I just had to scroll down to see where the first New Vegas comment would be. Four down. Awesome!
Patrolling the Atacama...
Well done Chile, stay strong stay prosperous.
Love from India
How did something circular fit in such a thin country. They must be magicians
Curiously this is the widest region of Chile
Damn Chile didn't just make a solar farm, they made Helios One from Fallout Newvages.
😆😆😆😆😆
Very expensive compared to solar panels. California has 3 of this and they found out that it’s expensive so they just use solar panels much cheaper.😅
@@minustah2132 california dont have the level of radiation of the atacama desert, that why in chile is so much cheap have solar power and it will be use to produce green hydrogen with many other green energies and key minerals that make chile the world lider in green power
@@morganstraussg its not so efficient compared to latest solar panel technology used by SunPower and windmills of GE that the US currently have..US also investing in mini nuclear reactors like general atomic EM2 and fusion technology.
Now just to find Euclid's C-finder...
LOL
One day in the near future all deserts in the world will have solar generators like these - cheap and clean natural energy . It will be the ultimate gentrification project.
That's very nice given that the whole world is turning into a desert.
unfortunately birds get attracted to the tower and they get killed
if safety measures are not taken it will wreck the local ecosystem
@@vishalgiraddi5357 global warming is already an ecosystem problem, but such side effects of eco friendly projects like these are negligible
@@vishalgiraddi5357 Atacama is the highest, driest desert on earth.
While it does have an ecosystem it's not like this is in the middle of a major migration route.
Now that's what we call Green technology 👏👌
Go find out how much destruction has been caused to the environment somewhere else in order to extract rare minerals to produce those panels. How about the batteries? What is the destination of the batteries after their lifespan has been reached?
@@diegotr1903 what batteries what panels? These are mirrors and salt totally standard materials
@Gregor Heisenhorn truth be told I agree, modern nuclear plants are better.
@Gregor Heisenhorn geregor❤️
@@diegotr1903 trump ki pic suppt me
That is enough energy for 8% of Chile's population.
That's actually pretty good considering this is just one area powering 8% of chillie
18 million+ people reside in Chile. This station provides enough to power 360,000 homes. How does one get 8% and my accurate representation of the impact is removed??? Fascinating.
The figure of 360,000 is stated in the video as well as shown in the thumbnail......
@@DJBillionator Not Chilean, but his numbers are pretty precise! Total household energy use in Chile is 50.763 GWh, out of that, 25.7% is electric consumption (the remaining 3/4 are heating, in the form of wood and natural gas).
That means that all of Chile's 6.3 million households consume a little over 13k GWh of electricity a year. Cerro Dominador (the CSP project in the video) produces 950 GWh a year (Annual net output), which is over 7% of household electric consumption, so it's pretty close.
@@DJBillionator the optimal household has 2 adults and 2 children. So the calculation is 360000*4:18000000=~0.08
Fantastic for Chile! An example for the world! Bravo!! (from the usa)
Fallout NV vibes right there. All we need is a stranger with a big iron on his hip.
The town of Nipton and the Solar plant is a 3 hour our drive from me and I love playing the NV soundtrack driving through there
Is Helios One hiring now? Where’s my Euclid C-Finder at?
Helios One was the first thing I thought, too hahahaha. Great! This is the way to go Chile!
@@beetojuice618 hey. Can i buy it for 1 Cap?
Benny i have his suit
If only Australia has the courage of the Chileans… Yes that’s right! Australia is addicted to fossil fuels. Coal, Coal Seam Gas.. anything but green…
Straya.....where the fossil fuel industry receives $20 billion of subsidies annually and when energy companies move out of thermal plants the gov uses tax payers money to build a $600 million gas fired plant after they pushed a now non-viable CSG project (Narrabri) through the system. A total disgrace.
If they looked at what the Saudis are doing in their transition model to renewables, sure Aus. could pick up faster their economy.
@@youxkio instead of trantitioning, Australia make green Energy is harder to get. they make tax to ev for "not paying tax on fuel"
@@valentbrilliantinowidysety4266 Yeah, I saw the news about that. That is so crazy, mate. Big lobbies going on. How do you fight them when they ally with the local governments?
Australia has a much more advanced solar thermal plant up and running. The heat is also used to desalinate salt water and grow plants as well as generate power. Coles sells the products.
Well done Chile,….India needs to learn from this ….
not efficient enough, the benefits don't outweigh the costs. rather invest in nuclear energy which is actually safer. (more people have died installing solar panels than from nuclear related deaths in last 30 years). for a developing country like India that will produce a lot of power for relatively low cost. imagine your monthly electricity bill being a hundred rupees.
@@MichelleObamasBBC Until the breakthrough in thorium based nuclear power plants is achieved, nuclear power is not feasible for India on a large scale
The cost to build and operate will have zero return on investment in multiple lifetimes. Google stopped investing in commercial solar after spending $300 million on Ivanpah Solar. Read about it…a $1.3 billion solar plant producing maybe $12 million worth of electricity annually…minus maintenance costs. A single mirror is $15,000….and requires a special cleaning fluid. And keep in mind…when the Sun goes down so does this plant
@@MichelleObamasBBC India quality buildings and nuclear plants dont sound too safe
its very bad for the birds. they fry instantly if they fly through it. And for a country like India with good bird density, its should not be preferred.
1.4 billion dollars for less than 300 MW is very expensive
Its very expensive..that’s one of the reason they only built 3 of this in Mojave dessert california it can generate almost 400mw and can power 300000 homes even during night time.
I was expecting some New Vegas memes and you dudes/dudettes didnt let me down. So proud of you.
Same here man. I'm just thankful that I'm not the only person thinking on this level.
There's hope for the human race after all...so long as we thin out the population of those gaw'damn Deathclaws & Cazadors...
Very valuable and eco friendly project.
Perfect! Sahara, Mexico and Southern states of the US should be next.
Sahara (Morocco in particular) has the world's largest concentrated solar power plant with a 510 MW capacity.
US already had things like these, but more could be built.
There’s one in Southern Cali
The us is too busy warmongering all over the world . No time for house-chores.
It's impossible in the Sahara , they will be covered by the sand within 3 days .
1.4 billion USD for 210 MW, that is a expensive project, but it is the future
Yes. But reliability is the key. It can generate electricity 24/7... there is no dependence on external sources of energy. Just the sun an it shines a lot in that part of the world.
@@sebdiaz1852 no , it’s not most reliable, nuclear and coal are most reliable, Chile being poor nation should not bother of being carbon neutral, as it has hardly added to global warming,
Only ten years payback. Turkish TL cost.
Good job Chile! We should all follow their example. Greetings from Poland!
Awesome work Chile!!!!!
ah, the Eye of Sauron, another one, or tow of them
Lol
Excellent job Chile, greetings from Chile
Taking the "Praise The Sun" meme to a whole new level.
Praise the Sun and The Lord !!
Good for them!
Congratulations Chile
In india 2 largest solar plants of more than 2300 meggawatt already made and third one of 3800 meggawatt are under construction these three projects are providing 35000000 unitd of electricity everyday
How does this have anything to do with ultraviolet levels?
It's mostly infrared at the opposite end of the spectrum that does the heating.
Yes, the Atacama is incredibly high and the atmosphere is thin.
That's why so many nations want to put telescopes there.
Don’t expect presenters to have even a basic knowledge of science
@@markthomasson5077 UA-cam has a header that says this is a German public broadcast service.
I don't expect the anchor to know. But I would expect some level of competence from the script writer, proofreader or editor before this ever got in front of the presenter.
Moreover, why are so many mirrors pointing at the sky, and not towards the tower? This heliostat's efficiency is low.
Surely it's a solar collector and the UV has little to do with it. Infra-red and visible absorption.
Great Job Chile. It kinda looks like the one in Las Vegas.
Not in Las Vegas but in the southern California desert near Ivanpah
It sets birds on fire in flight
@@g00ses so what?
California now has no reliable power generation. Great job indeed.
@@g00ses there are no birds in the atacama desert, they would die.
If a bird flies through those beams you get instant roasted chicken :D
The birds are less common in the north but yeah. Instant KFC
0:04 The Atacama is one of the driest places on earth, however, it's not the hottest, due to being a plateau.
Yes, that's true. When I was there the climate was OK.
Has the highest levels of UV radiation though video doesn’t claim it is the hottest
@@bryanmonkhouse5800 0:03 ?
@@Froggability one of the hottest, not the hottest.
👏👏👏👏Congratulations from Singapore. How we wish have such big land.
Invade them and take the land
@@faizanrana2998 Chilean army hasn't been defeated in all its history, good luck invading us.
@@faizanrana2998 My goodness...
Go offshore wind.
@@HunterShows i favour the invade chile proposals
We've had these in Sim City 20 years ago.
Totally impressive. Tons of free energy.
No. Not free by any means.
@@floorskin1
Well, the initial investment is quite high, but in operation costs we are only talking about routine maintenance. It does not consume any fuel, it doesn't need any raw material to produce that energy. So in terms of OPEX it's essentially free.
Lead the world Chile!!!!
We are comming just waith a few .
Intentionally misleading (AKA dishonest) "energy for homes" blurb that vastly undersells the challenge. Homes are not the big energy consumer. Those homes contain stuff, and those people need transportation and so on. Most of that energy is not consumed in the home, it is consumed on a road or in a factory somewhere.
Disregarding intermittency issues (not solved by the little amount of storage afforded in this project, so it still relies to a smaller extent on fossil fuels), the net output is expected to be 950 GWh per year. Chile consumes 36.1 MTOE per year, or about 2700 W continuous for each person. You can do that more efficiently with electricity, but Chile will head towards ~10KW continuous per capita like the west because they don't like poverty anymore than we do.
So at 2700 W, that actually powers 40 500 people, which is about 20 000 homes. If they head toward western living standards; which of course they will; that's only 10 000 people. You will need 1550 power plants of this type (and quite a bit of fossil fuel backup) to give Chileans a western living standard, not crammed into favelas and forced into energy poverty. And they are all full of moving panels in a desert that need frequent cleaning with fresh water, constant maintenance of leaking pipes.
Solar thermal has been tried repeatedly and found to be a pretty terrible technology. What are they doing this time that will change that? Nothing, that I can see.
👍🇺🇸
There is always a less exciting and less wonderful reality behind the proclamations of politicians, no matter what country or what language they speak…
@Imperial Terra except when nuclear power plants leak and/or wear out, then what? also, what do you do with the spent fuel rods? sell them for nuclear weapons?
This is great... unless you are a bird flying by.
ExxonMobil or Fox news, is that you?
Congrats Chile from 🇮🇳India
380 000 doesn't seem a lot of homes for such a big project.
Bruh freaking 380,000 homes its like the whole country man
1.6 Billion for 360,000? That’s a literal steal for the cheapest energy known to mankind
@@dominickcortes3320 yup
@@dominickcortes3320 Laughing in nuclear plant
Awesome Chile!
when a outbreak starts happening in the area im calling Matthew McConaughey
"a outbreak"?
I am really proud of the Chile people for trying to bring solar green energy to South America to help lower carbon emissions and take advantage of there countries high deserts to produce power. I wish America would begin to invest in Solar power to help reduce the carbon emissions and bring about cleaner energy.
America is not the country that it was once, or probably this is America doesn't cut it for this new world with changing climates and having it's citizen help out for the benefit of all, I'm an American but a rational one.
We have a billion taxpayer dollars at Crescent Dunes, look it up. Then check into the Ivanpah problems. I hope they fixed the bugs for this one, but I doubt it. Mechanically complex systems, dependent on precision don’t perform well in harsh desert environments.
Congrats, it seems to me the topography of Chile should support numerous green options, this one due to its high elevation desert and possibly wind due to its many mountainous corridors and possibly others if showpacks generate enough water flow.
looks exactly like Helios from fallout.
great way to make use of deserts. other countries with deserts should do the same.
Proud to be an Engineer 👍🙏👍
Good Job 👍🙏👍
Same, Good Peoples.
I hear these plants cook anything that tries flying over it.
Believe me, not even insects live in that desert, let alone birds. Nothing is gonna fly over it
All the mirrors point to the top of the tower. Everything flying above is quite safe.
Time always tells us
@@jfr2045 "believe me" aka I dont have a source
@@Tonatiub being chilean is enough source for you? I mean, you could have googled it in the time it took you to write that
California is using this technology for a long time
Chileans are amazing 🤘
Well done!
No one will ever be chilly in Chile again free energy for everyone!
Hasta el nombre es imponente "CERRO DOMINADOR " 💪🏼
They forgot to mention that it’s excellent for roasting any birds that may fly through the area between the mirrors and collection tower…
Looked like a quarter of the mirrors were already screwed up.
Super cool love to see it!
This will burn birds in the air too 😂
Well done, Chile!
cheaper to put 20 solar panels on every house
But it's not that simple and efficient because of the sun moving, the location of the houses, etc.
Nice work dudes.
Beautiful. 👏👏👏👏👏
way to go Chile
I thought it was generally accepted that this technology kinda sucked? They built a few in these power plants in the US which ended up being a disappointment in terms of how expensive they were and how little energy they ended up generating.
It's sad that society hasn't moved on from this yet. The only feasible solution is nuclear.
@@voyager11221 Nuclear power is the most expensive type of electricity when you subtract government subsidies and consider the disposal of radioactive waste, for which there are still no suitable repositories in the world. FUSION is the way to go.
it will last a few months ?
One of the few places where it actually works. Kinda.
Nuclear is still much better, but you won't see this thing on DW, innit?
Yes nuclear is better and coal isn't bad. Coal gives of carbon and plants love carbon without it our oxygen levels would be low.
@@jamwhenever Yep, you got it Mr.Scientist man.
@@jamwhenever lmao
@@jamwhenever Coal is having a quite bad energy efficiency, between other things. It is quite costly and it has the bigest number of deaths per unit of energy produced. I'm afraid that its time has really passed.
Right on! I'd love to see some of those in my state's desert areas.
I could have sworn that I saw something similar in a James Bond movie 20 years ago...
The man with the golden gun
“Sahara” 2005 w/ Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz also had a big scene with this kind of solar power plant.
Let’s see it in 10 years
Really, Ultraviolet?
Yup, and well done picking that up. Seems the news team does not fully understand the what the various wave lengths of the light spectrum do...
Good for Chile
Well done 🇨🇱 Chile 🇨🇱
Common sense approach to a common problem
Bravo to Chile
Congratulations to Chile from Egypt 🇪🇬
Excellent that Thermosolar technology is being worked on! I have been following since the pioneering project by Torresol Energy in Spain back in 2011.
Brilliant
hmm.. interesting, how much it produces during night compared with day?
It's awesome how the arrangement of the solar panels mimics the arrangement of sunflower seeds in a sunflower or nodes on a pinecone etc... :)
Great project!! Congrats from Chile ;)
way to go Chile!
How will you clean it?
Reminds me of an James bond movie 😎
That was taken in Mojave desert california ivanpah solar electric generating plant they have 3 towers that can produce more than 392mw and can power 100000 homes even during night time.
A very similar plant near Tonopah Nevada in the USA has been shut down for failure to function or produce. I wonder how this one is different.
Good for them
Fantastic. 💪🏻 🇨🇱