This early 1970s educational film distributed by the SOHIO Oil company looks at the different potential applications of solar and photovoltaic technologies. The film covers different experimental housing unit with solar energy systems as well as potential applications in agriculture, industry, irrigation, and electricity production.
0:09 SOHIO logo appears, 0:14 Photos of different forms of natural resource exploitation with the SOHIO logo in the bottom right corner, 0:38 Title “Science Screen Report”, 0:55 Opening sequence with different images of the sun and light, 1:11 Different shots of solar energy applications in industry and in general, 1:56 Title “Solar Energy Options”, 2:18 Different solar panel arrays on house roofs, 2:46 Animation of how an all-air solar system works in a residential house for heating and cooling, 3:57 Animation of a hydronic solar system works in a residential house for heating and cooling, 5:00 Different shots of a construction site for a large building, 5:35 Different shots of houses with solar panels in the snow, 6:15 Greenhouses being heated by solar panel units, 6:45 Tomatoes in the green house, 6:52 Curtains being drawn around the plants, 7:09 Man inspecting solar panels that are being used to heat a poultry house, 7:50 Cows at a farm next to a barn covered in solar panels, 8:16 Solar heated water being used to clean cow udders, 8:37 Solar panels follow the sun as it goes across the sky, 9:04 Water being used to irrigate arid fields, 10:01 construction workers laying a plastic sheet into a hole in the ground, 10:10 animation of how solar energy can be used to heat water for industrial applications, 11:24 Solar One power plant. Mirrors focusing sunlight onto a tower for electricity generation, 11:48 Two scientists looking at a model of a large mirror based solar plant, 12:11 Scientist looking through a microscope at photovoltaic cells, 12:31 different shots of experimental photovoltaic systems, 12:55 Animations of the different applications for photovoltaics in the future such as industry, on residential homes, in agricultural complexes, and electricity production, 13:55 SOHIO Logo appears
Solar One was a pilot solar-thermal project built in the Mojave Desert just east of Barstow, CA, USA. It was the first test of a large-scale thermal solar power tower plant. Solar One was designed by the Department of Energy (DOE), Southern California Edison, LA Dept of Water and Power, and California Energy Commission. It was located in Daggett, CA, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Barstow. Solar One’s method of collecting energy was based on concentrating the sun’s energy onto a common focal point to produce heat to run a steam turbine generator. It had hundreds of large mirror assemblies, or heliostats, that track the sun, reflecting the solar energy onto a tower where a black receiver absorbed the heat. High-temperature heat transfer fluid was used to carry the energy to a boiler on the ground where the steam was used to spin a series of turbines, much like a traditional power plant.
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