Sun Power

Day 23 - Windorah, Channel Country, SWQ

Windorah's electrical power comes from these five mirrored dishes, each almost 14 mtrs across.

The mirrors reflect the sunlight onto a high capacity solar cell in a central point at the front of the dish. Each cell generates approx. 26kw of electricity.

The farm generates about 360,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year. Backup power is provided by diesel generators

[Jenfurj]

Wow Such a massive sun power farm.

[Heather]

Great capture - interesting how it works.

[sally agnew]

They are very cool, plenty of sunshine out there :)

[Sam]

I want these in my back garden! FAV

[Jane Anderson]

Great photo! We have a lot of these, and my photos never seem to do them justice.

[Babs]

Please don't go near this with the flash on your camera. God knows what damage you could do.

[Merrelyn]

It amazes me that we don't make better use of solar energy.

[Taffy]

Great use of repetition!

[Poppo Livy]

@taffy That's what I thought too Taffy. :-)

[Rachel]

That's impressive. We should have more of these considering how much sun we get.

[Connie Little]

Interesting. I agree we should have more of these.

[Tony]

Great example of this advancing technology.

[M. Brutus]

That's pretty awesome. Thanks for the picture and the explanation.