Aerial Photos by Tom Hegen Capture the Sprawling Solar Plants Popping Up Around the Planet
All photos © Tom Hegen, shared with permission
In a single hour alone, the solar pummels the earth with extra energy than the world makes use of within the span of a whole yr. This staggering fact impressed German photographer Tom Hegen (beforehand), whose current aerial photos survey the vegetation harnessing this supply of renewable power. The Photo voltaic Energy Sequence friends down at landscapes throughout the U.S., France, and Spain which are lined with scores of sq. panels—in accordance with PetaPixel, the places embrace California’s Ivanpah Photo voltaic Energy Facility, Nevada’s Crescent Dunes Photo voltaic Vitality Mission, the Les Mées Photo voltaic Farm in France, and the PS10 Photo voltaic Energy Plant and Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant, each close to Seville.
Staggered in huge, round patterns, a lot of the gleaming infrastructure depends on mirrors known as heliostats to gather and direct the daylight to a central station. This fashion of harvesting makes use of the captured warmth to generate steam that then produces power, and newer photo voltaic thermal vegetation additionally apply molten salts to retailer the facility lengthy after the solar has set. “These man-made, constructed landscapes symbolize our efforts of constructing a extra sustainable future in probably the most subtle methods,” the photographer writes.
The Photo voltaic Energy Sequence is only one of Hegen’s tasks involved with the human affect on the earth, which you’ll see extra of on Instagram and Behance.
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