Talk:Solar Tower Buronga

Latest comment: 17 years ago by Andrewa in topic See also

The article World's_tallest_structures says the Solar Tower Buronga is in NSW. The present article says construction will start in Mildura.

Mildura is in Victoria, albeit right on the border with NSW. Buronga is in NSW.

There is clearly something wrong here.

The EnviroMission website says Buronga in Wentworth Shire. Early proposals were to build it near Cullulleraine in Victoria, I think. Hence the confusion. --ScottDavis 15:04, 21 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

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The Solar One plant referred to in Heliostat works on a totally different principal - the solar panels concentrate the sunlight on a collector which heats water to generate power. The Buronga plant, if built, will use hot air to turn the turbines mounted in the tower. --Dagdaireland 11 August 2005

See Heliostat which has a discussion about another solar power plant that also claims to be the first and one that has been in operation for many years. Vegaswikian 23:42, 3 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Merge Proposal

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These two pages are both about the very same structure; it like having two articles, one about Golden Gate Bridge and another one about Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco). There is already a third article about solar chimneys in which the generic concept is discussed. JDH 14:08, 29 January 2006
No - continuing the analogy, solar chimney is more like bridge. The analogy does not work perfectly, as there are lots of suspension bridges already built, but no solar chimneys yet, other than one prototype. I believe all three articles should exist, but that the info in them could be better distributed. --Scott Davis Talk 14:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
  • And why do you think it is necessary to have *two* articles about *one* single structure that EnviroMission wants to build somewhere in the outback of Australia but that hasn't even been built yet? If there were *two* of those, then perhaps it would be appropriate to have *two* articles, but not now.

5 articles? That sounds wrong...

Here's my suggestion. Delete Solar power tower - it's basically a disambiguation page with a horrible name. Energy towers is a theoretical project and does IMHO not need a separate article - it can easily be a paragraph in Solar Tower along with Solar Tower Buronga. Make Energy towers a disambiguation page for the whole thing and keep Solar chimney as it is a separate concept altogether. Celcius 08:20, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I don't think that solar power tower should be deleted. I think that it should be made into an article about the first entry. It's the best name people have come up with for the heliostats pointed at a large central receiver design (Solar One, Solar Two, Solar Tres and Sandia's plant). I agree, solar chimney should stay as it is. Solar Tower and Solar Tower Buronga should be merged. Energy Tower should be deleted unless proof of its notability can be given, a merge, as you suggested, might be acceptable. After the merge(s), a disambiguation page for solar power tower (after it is made into an article), solar tower and Solar Tower Buronga might be good idea. -- Kjkolb 08:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
Ok - I missed the Solar One article... that would make you right. I just looked it over again and Solar Tower already contains most of both Energy towers and Solar Tower Buronga - so it's pretty much just a matter of deleting them. That leaves us with Solar chimney, Solar Tower and Solar power tower with Solar One to be merged into Solar power tower in due time. We badly need a disambiguation page - Solar tower (lowercase "t") - confuses the matter even more. Does anyone disagree? :) Celcius 09:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
Why delete? Why not just redirect? Or is that what you mean? Andrewa 16:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
Yes - redirect. Gardar Rurak 04:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
Ok - I believe this has been up for discussion long enough and there seems to be consensus so I'm going ahead with the mergers. I'm creating a dismabig page as well. Feel free to poke me if something goes awry :) Gardar Rurak 19:30, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

See also

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See Talk:Solar updraft tower Talk:Solar updraft tower/Archive 2 for much discussion of this particular proposal. Andrewa 03:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Reply