UK's CIS Solar Tower garners 390-kilowatts from the sun

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	UK's CIS Solar Tower garners 390-kilowatts from the sun

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4-21-2007 8:17 AM

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We're not entirely sure if Manchester's CIS Solar Tower will be the world's <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/19/dubais-time-residences-tower-worlds-largest-gadget/">grandest solar tower</A>, but in terms of buildings have moved beyond the drawing board, it definitely packs a punch. Reportedly, the flaky construction led to dilapidating walls, which were then replaced by a much greener solution -- 7,244 Sharp 80W <A href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=solar">photovoltaic</A> panels, to be precise. Curiously, only 4,898 of the modules are actually functional, but they still soak up enough sunlight to generate 390-kilowatts of energy, or in layman's terms, enough juice to "power 1,000 PCs for a year." Additionally, the <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/20/us-tesco-building-to-sport-worlds-largest-solar-roof/">roof</A> is home to two dozen wind turbines that generate 10-percent of the total power used in the building. Of course, such an endeavor did ring up at a steep £5.675 million ($11.4 million), but we're pretty certain this solar panel makeover was concerned with <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/uk-households-to-get-free-energy-monitors/">matters</A> other than dollars and cents. Click on through for a top-down shot.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6D8B0299-8259-4EDA-BB62-D3C6B516CD7A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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