LOS ANGELES: Out in the wastes of the Mojave
desert, halfway between Los Angeles-and Las Vegas,
giant earth movers are grading the, sands to create a
shallow bowl the size of 75 football fields. A year from
now the first of 1,800 concave mirrors will be installed.
The mirrors reflect the sun's heat up to the water tower
(shown in this McDonnell Douglas artist conception),
where the water is boiled into steam. (UPI photo) —

Tower of P
wilt to heat

‘LOS ANGELES (UPI) - .compnter-guided motors,
Out in the wastes of the will tilt and tarn to face the

Mojave desert near the town sun and reflect its rays at a
of Barstow, halfway between ‘huge water tank on a tower
Los Angeles: and Las Vegas, _ 320 feet above the ground in
Nev., giant.earth movers are .the center of the bowl. They
gtading'the sands to create a . will‘operate from 10 a.m. to
shallow pool the size of 75+ sunset. :
football fields. .
oe The heat will bring water
About a year from now, in the tank to an ultra-high
engineers will begin in- temperature and the boiling
stalling in the bowl the first in the tank will continue for
of 1,800 concave mirrors, three hours after sunset. The
eac igh and 20 feet steam generate: y the
cach 24 feet high and 20 feet Orting tank will be funnelled
to the ground where it will

When the installation is spin turbines which in turn
finished it will look from jet Wil produce electricity.
airliners flying overhead ; .

i : This “tower of power” is
a sprinkling of shimmering L
jewels cast on the land of the the Model T of the nation’s

solar energy program. It is
cactus and the rattlesnake. experimental and meant to

answer questions of whether
And near the end of 1981 such a Rube Goldberg

or early 1982, each of the contraption is practical and
1,800 mirrors, run by economically feasible.

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