Spanish engineers have built a thermo solar power station that can shrug off cloudy days and generate electricity 24 hours a day, AFP reported.


The Gemasolar station, located in Andalusia, southern Spain, has a central tower surrounded by 2,600 solar mirrors, each measuring 120 square meters, in an immense 195-hectare circle.

The solar panels reflect sunrays on the tower and energy is stored in a vat filled with molten salts at a temperature of more than 500 degrees Celsius. Those salts are then used to produce steam to turn on the turbines and produce electricity.

It is the station's capacity to store energy that makes Gemasolar so different, because it allows the plant to transmit power during the night, relying on the energy it has accumulated during the day.

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据法新社报道，西班牙工程师已经修建了一座热能太阳能混合电站，这种电站不惧阴天，可24小时发电。

吉马太阳能电站位于西班牙南部的安达卢西亚地区，有一个中央塔，塔周围环绕着2600块太阳反光镜。反光镜每块面积为120平米，铺成195公顷的大圈。

太阳能板将阳光反射到中央塔，然后能量储藏在装有溶盐的大桶中，溶盐温度超过500摄氏度。这些盐可用于制造蒸汽来带动涡轮发电。

正是该电站储存能量的功能使得其与众不同，因为这使该电站在夜间依靠白天积攒的能量输送电能。