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Aerial photograph of the power block at the Crescent Dunes Solar concentrated solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

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Creator
Creator: Stillings, Jamey
Date
2015-10-08
Description
Photographer's note: "Aerial photograph of the power block of the Crescent Dunes Solar concentrated solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada, USA, includes a 540 foot (165 meter) concrete tower topped by a black solar receiver, two large tanks for molten salt storage (one "cooler" at approximately 550°F / 288°C and one hot at approximately 1050°F / 566°C), a steam turbine generator, and an air-cooled condenser."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; aerial; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; molten salt; renewable energy; storage; tower."
Digital ID
20151008_CP_11979_P
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1pc2v760
Details
Subject
Electric power systems
Electric power-plants
Salt
Solar energy
United States. Department of Energy
Electric power production
Place
Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
Resource Type
Image
Material Type
photographs
digital photographs
color photographs
Source
Aerial photograph of the power block at the Crescent Dunes Solar concentrated solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada, 2015 October 08
Digital Project
Jamey Stillings Collection
Citation

20151008_CP_11979_P. Jamey Stillings Photograph Collection, October 8, 2015. PH-00380. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Rights
This material is protected by copyright. Personal, including educational and academic, use of this material is without restriction but acknowledgement of Jamey Stillings and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries is requested. Commercial use of any portion of this material is prohibited. Contact the copyright owner, Jamey Stillings, for more information.
Rights Holder
Stillings, Jamey
Standardized Rights Statement
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Date Digitized
2015-10-08
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff