{"id":178480,"date":"2023-12-17T10:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/24-7-solar-towers-could-double-energy-output"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:23:32","slug":"24-7-solar-towers-could-double-energy-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/24-7-solar-towers-could-double-energy-output","title":{"rendered":"24\/7 Solar Towers Could Double Energy Output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/24-7-solar-towers-could-double-energy-output2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to improve the output of solar energy systems, why not also run them at night? That\u2019s the question researchers in Qatar and Jordan addressed as they successfully devised a system that promises to more than double energy output of current solar power stations.<\/p>\n<p>By combining two concepts\u2014a solar updraft system and a cooling downdraft structure\u2014researchers designed a model that could generate 753 MWh of energy annually. That\u2019s enough to power roughly 753 homes for about five weeks or 1,500 60-watt light bulbs nonstop for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of the system, referred to as Solar Tower Power Plant, go back to 1982 when Spanish engineers constructed a chimney-like tower with a mechanical turbine at its base. Air within the tower was warmed by absorbing solar radiation, similar to a greenhouse. As the air heated, it created an updraft that rose and activated wind turbines that in turn generated electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to improve the output of solar energy systems, why not also run them at night? That\u2019s the question researchers in Qatar and Jordan addressed as they successfully devised a system that promises to more than double energy output of current solar power stations. By combining two concepts\u2014a solar updraft system and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}