EEVblog 1553 - World's First Commercial Solar Power Station

Dave visits the world's first commercial solar power station in White Cliffs, a small opal mining town in outback Australia.
Built in 1981 and using 14 heliostatic tracking 5m diameter dishes, this concentrated thermal solar plant produced 25kW of power using a steam generator.

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_C...
Analysis report: https://eevblog.com/files/sustain_ren...
Mirror efficiency data: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/43...
Heritage Listing: https://portal.engineersaustralia.org...
History: https://ehive.com/collections/7333/th...
Steam genertor assesment: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wi...

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