Crosbyton Solar Power Project
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The Texas town of Crosbyton was the chosen site for the Solar Power
Project conducted through Texas Tech’s Electrical Engineering
department. The project was the result of efforts begun in 1974 to
find an alternative energy source to slow rapidly rising local
utility rates. A 65-foot, bowl-shaped solar dish lined with mirrors
and tilted at an angle was constructed to reap maximum sunlight,
thereby concentrating the sun’s heat and produce temperatures
as high as 1,000 degrees F. The heat would be focused onto a
receiver that heated water to create steam, and this stem would
then be pumped through a turbine, which would in turn produce
electricity.
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