Solar tower technology recycles plastic into oil

Wow. The Land Art Generator Initiative took inventor Akinori Iti’s idea to convert plastic back to petroleum and figured out how to do it with solar tower technology. They called it Plastikoleum. Not only does this save energy, they think they can do it at a scale of 10 tons of plastic per hour, [...]

Google invests in huge California solar power tower plant

Google continues its investment in renewable, clean energy with $168 million for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California. This follows on $20 million it put in CoolPlanetBiofuels a week before.

Ivanpah, which is already under construction, will be the largest solar power tower facility in the world, producing 392 MW of power [...]

Spain’s solar tower

This solar tower is already operational with several more coming.

Solar power tower

This solar tower is planned for Australia by 2012. Amazing technology.