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 tower.
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  • Ruin
  • …lies at an elevation of 696 metres (2,283 feet)
  • Description: thermal convection power plant
  • Also known as
    “Manzanaras Solar Updraft Tower”
    “SUT”

Solar updraft tower

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Latitude
39.04289° or 39° 2′ 34″ north
Longitude
-3.25343° or 3° 15′ 12″ west
Open location code
8CFR2PVW+5J
Geo­Names ID
7732443
Wiki­data ID
Q13403028

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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”
  • Hausa: “Hasumiyar hasken rana”
  • 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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