What this electrical item then, science fact or fiction?

[Newboy1996]

Nothing to do with Islamic prayer or a drive-in movie!

 

[Adam_151]

Its a photovoltaic generating installation

 

[JohnD]

I reckon it's the Seville tower

there was a French solar furnace years ago, with an array of mirrors trained on a single point

easier to build nowadays as you can get microprocessor-controlled servos to track accurately.

 

[Newboy1996]

Its a 11mw solar power station in seville, Spain. Not PV but a huge arrays of curved mirrors aiming at a central tower of water, driving a steam turbine. The rays of light are not computer drawn on either, its the power of the reflected light!!
Grab you sunnies

 

[TicklyT]

Isn't that a solar array? The solar tracking mirrors all focus on a single element in the tower. That element (boiler?) gets hot enough to produce superheated steam to run a (more or less) conventional steam turbine generator.

It doesn't work too well at night, when you want the lights on though.

 

[Wontdothatagain]

It is a power station. The round objects on the ground are mirrors that focus sun rays and then project them to the hole in the top of the tower where a super conducting coil is heated.

 

[Newboy1996]

AKA the Spirit level!
I under estimated you professionals!

 

[BS3036]

OK - hands up everyone who checked the file name on the jpegs first.

 

[JohnD]