Solar Power For disaster Relief in a form of power generating airship or a blimp if you want get bigger. Pulltheskydown has posted a concept for airships fitted with thin film photovoltaics, and also a reversible drive propeller/wind turbine, it delivers clean energy via a cable tethered to the earth. In addition to energy generation, it also houses a suite of telecommunications equipment, acts as a relay station for radio and cellular telephone signals, aiding the coordination of relief operations.Solarial, as the airship is known, will be 20 m long, this still provides approximately 180 square meters of PV surface area on the top portion of the airship. The solar cells used are based on CIGS technology and can be manufactured integrally with the airship’s envelope, reducing cost, weight, complexity, and improving reliability and performance.
The Solarial is estimated to produce about 125 kWh per day between its solar cells and the wind turbine. For reference, a 50 L medical refrigerator for storing vaccines and medicine and producing ice might use 300 wH per day. A 10,000 lpd shallow-water pump (sufficient for 300-500 people) may use 5 kWh.
You can read more about the concept and the deployment plans here.
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