Solar updraft tower
The solar updraft tower is a design concept for a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from low-temperature solar heat. Sunshine heats the air beneath a very wide greenhouse-like roofed collector structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Widakora, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Ruin
- Description: thermal convection power plant
- Also known as: “Manzanaras Solar Updraft Tower”, “solar updraft tower”, and “SUT”
Solar updraft tower
- Categories: solar power plant, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Manzanares, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Thai—“Solar updraft tower” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sonskoorsteen”
- Arabic: “برج شمسي”
- Catalan: “torre solar”
- Catalan: “Torre solar”
- Croatian: “Sunčeva uzgonska elektrana”
- Dutch: “zonnetoren”
- Dutch: “Zonnetoren”
- Finnish: “Aurinkotorni”
- Finnish: “Ilmavirtavoimala”
- French: “tour solaire”
- French: “Tour solaire”
- German: “Aufwindkraftwerk”
- German: “Thermikkraftwerk”
- Hebrew: “ארובה סולרית”
- Italian: “torre solare”
- Italian: “Torre solare”
- Japanese: “ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー”
- Japanese: “ソーラーアップドラフトタワー”
- Persian: “برج مکشی خورشیدی”
- Polish: “Wieża słoneczna”
- Russian: “Аэротермические электростанции циклонного действия”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Solarna uzgonska elektrana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sunčeva uzgonska elektrana”
- Slovak: “slnečná prúdová veža”
- Slovak: “Slnečná prúdová veža”
- Slovenian: “sončna vzgonska elektrarna”
- Slovenian: “Sončna vzgonska elektrarna”
- Spanish: “Torre solar de convección”
- Spanish: “torre solar”
- Thai: “หอพลังลม”
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