Solar tower
Solar tower may refer to:
Industrial structures
- Solar power tower, solar power plant technology using mirrors
- also Solar furnace similar structure used to generate high temperatures for industry or power generation
- Solar updraft tower, an electrical power generating structure using a chimney-style tower
Other architectural structures
- Solar tower (astronomy), a sun observation structure
- Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment, STACEE, being used to study Cherenkov radiation
- Solar tower, a (medieval) tower structure often of three stories containing a dwelling space
- A Solar (room) constructed next to a great hall
- Solar chimney, ventilation using solar energy
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