Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/-Canberra-Solar-Dish-27MZIFL0TAHG.htmlConceptually similar Canberra Solar DishGP01PP7Completed★★★★ Canberra Solar DishGP01PP3Completed★★★★ Canberra Solar DishGP01PP2Completed★★★★ Canberra Solar DishGP01PP5Completed★★★★Dr Keith Lovegrove and Manager of Business Development Artur Sawadski. GP01PUMCompleted★★★★Manufacturing Wind TurbinesGP01PT1Completed★★★★Assembly of photovoltaic cells, BP Solar, Sydney, AustraliaGP0W36Completed★★★★Assembly of photovoltaic cells, BP Solar, Sydney, AustraliaGP04EPCompleted★★★★Solar towers providing energy at Olympic Boulevard, for "Green" Olympics 2000. Sydney, AustraliaGP013DBCompleted★★★★View AllGP01PP6 Canberra Solar DishWizard Power is the company commercialising the "Big Dish" solar thermal technology that has been developed at the Australian National University. The prototype has been generating reliable power since 1994 and construction of a new dish is on the way. In the image, a welder wearing protective clothing and mask, welds part of the structure as bright sparks fly.Locations:Australia-Canberra-OceaniaDate:12 Feb, 2009Credit:© Greenpeace / Dean SewellMaximum size:3504px X 2336pxKeywords:Day-Energy-Energy efficiency-KWCI (GPI)-Manual workers-Masks (protective)-One person-Outdoors-Renewable energy-Research-Science-Solar thermal energyShoot:Renewables Documentation: Canberra Solar DishWizard Power is the commercial development arm of the Australian National University, based in Canberra. They are soon to build the first commercial project using the “big dish” solar thermal technology at Whyalla, a real outback town. Wizard make a “big dish” - it looks like it belongs in a retro comic book, in a vision of outer space. It is an enormous, mirrored, parabolic dish that tracks the sun, and focuses it on to central collector. In keeping with Australia’s love of big things, the new design will have an area of 500m2, three or four times as large as any other existing example of the technology. “On a sunny day, you would get 100 homes powered off one dish, effectively”, says principle researcher Dr Keith Lovegrove of the ANU. To store the power, Wizard uses an ammonia solution and a chemical reaction that can run “forwards” to store heat or “backwards” to release heat. Wizard Power has an aggressive strategy for gaining energy market share, and the industrial use in Whyalla is just the first step. They are currently working on five projects around Australia, together with an energy company partner, each one between tens to hundred of megawatts scale. The next ones will be India and Israel and they are talking to contacts in China.Related Collections:Concentrating Solar Power ReportRenewable Energy (All Photographers)Renewables Documentation: Australia (All Photographers)