Monday, October 31, 2011

World’s First Solar Plant That Generates Power at Night Opens in Spain

The new Gemasolar Power Plant near Seville in southern Spain is the world’s first solar plant to have the capacity to generate electricity even at night. More than 2600 concentrically arranged mirrors spread across 185 hectares of rural land concentrate solar energy towards a centrally located molten nitrate salt tank. As the rays converge, they super-heat the salt to over 900C, causing water around the tank to boil and drive steam turbines. In addition, any superfluous heat generated during the day is stored within the liquefied salt. It acts like a giant thermal battery for driving the turbines at night and during overcast days up to 15 hours at a time with no sunlight. But Seville, being one of the sunniest areas in Europe, this doesn’t happen very often.












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Saturday, October 29, 2011

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Friday, October 28, 2011

China’s Richest Village Opens Skyscraper Hotel

Not to be left behind by its urban counterparts, one of China's richest village, Huaxi, has built a 328m skyscraper hotel at a cost of $470 million, sending clear indication of the country’s economic growth. The Longxi International Hotel in the village of Huaxi has been built to celebrate the village's 50th anniversary. The village, located in east China's Jiangsu province, has become the first rural area in the world to have its own skyscraper.

The hotel boasts 800 suites that can hold 2,000 people, an exhibition hall, a revolving restaurant, and rooftop swimming pools and gardens. A sculpture of a bull, made from solid gold and reportedly weighing a tonne, has also been installed. The bull, a testament to the wealth of the village, will greet visitors from a viewing area on the sixtieth floor of the tower.



The 74-storey hotel has taken four years to complete and is now ranked as the 15th highest skyscraper in the world, taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris (324m) and the Chrysler Building in New York (319m).

Once a poor farming community, Huaxi has boomed during the past half a century of China’s economic reform growing from a population of around 1,600 grow to 50,000 today. If statistics are to be believed, then every family has at least one house, two cars and $250,000 in the bank. The residents enjoy universal health care and free education.

 Officials attend an inauguration ceremony for the new skyscraper tower in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province, October 8, 2011.

 A view of the new skyscraper tower of Huaxi village during a hazy day in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province, October 7, 2011.

 A view of villas built for residents in the Huaxi village of Jiangyin, Jiangsu province May 31, 2010

 A man watches the Huaxi village, at Jiangsu province December 2, 2010.

 A steel worker walks as the new skyscraper tower of Huaxi village is seen in Huaxi, Jiangsu province, October 7, 2011.

A woman stands next to a solid gold statue of an ox during the official inauguration of a skyscraper tower in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province, October 8, 2011.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Carpet of Leaves Baffles Motorists and Pedestrians in London

At first glance, it looks like any ordinary road on an October day, covered with thousands of fallen leaves. Except the carpet of leaves has abrupt, geometric edges – made all the more striking by the patches of unaffected tarmac next to it. Careful inspection reveals the leaves are actually embedded on the tarmac

Motorists and pedestrians were baffled by the bizarre spectacle. It is speculated that the early fall of autumn leaves this season mixed with the scorching heat London suffered from last week softened a few sections of the tarmac, where the leaves became embedded after car tires ran over them creating a colorful collage that would probably last for many months.





 


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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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