The Solar Ark…

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I came across a post on Ecoble.com, titled the World’s Coolest Solar Collecting Building, so I had to take a peak. Unbelievable, the building is spectacular. Take a look at the other pictures on the Ecoble.com.

Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a Solar Powered Building that not only gathers it’s power from the sun but, acts as an enormous Billboard, is an awesome architectural design, and includes a Solar Lab.

Built by Sanyo in Japan this beauty is built on a steel frame and solid trusses, with an overall length of 315m (945feet) and heights reaching 37.1m (111feet) on the ends. Earthquake resistant to a level 7 on the Japanese Scale.

But the most important point of this building is the power it can yield, solar power that is. It uses 5,046 panels made of Single-Crystal Silicon Solar Cells, capable of producing a Max load of 630Kw, that’s an annual electrical output of 530,000 KWh. This is a Fossil Fuel savings equivalent to 7,145 kerosene cans (128,610 liters) per year and a CO₂ reduction 95 t-C/year.

That’s pretty cool in itself.

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January 19th, 2008 at 04:15 pm by bibi in Green Building, Solar, Go Green, Environment

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Comments

Waggdogg Said,
This panel is 945 feet wide, wider than three football fields. It is 111 feet high, as high as a ten story building. This thing is larger than the New Orleans Supper Dome and only puts out 530,00 kwh, at max per year. Pretty bad.
bibi Said,
If your interested you can go to their site and check out the stats. I just wrote down a few. http://www.solar-ark.com/english/index.html
Thanks for stopping by…
Matthew Said,
Well, it’s certainly better than what we currently have.
scrammy Said,
I went to their website, and it’s not really a building at all. It’s just an open bottomed steel shell. Now, what would be cool if it was full of offices, or living accommodations, or something usable. Put a water collector and a real grass roof on it. Make it so it spins with the direction of the sun.
Chris Said,
Versus the New Orleans Supper Dome (I wonder how good the food is there?), which does nothing but use electricity. This is a cool building, and even if it is inefficient, you’ve got to start somewhere.
Vic Said,
I agree…the energy out put of this doesn’t justify the cost at all. And, how much CO2 was produced making this monstrosity????
Fumi Matsubara Said,
Big news for clean energy, Japan has built yet another technological and architectural wonder. A building that looks like a giant surf board!
Vyroid Said,
When this energy producer goes main stream we may see a nice shift in the right direction.
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