Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science

The delegation visited Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science. During a campus tour, they visited the Solar Power Tower which faces a field of 64 large, multi-faceted mirrors (heliostats). Each heliostat tracks the movement of the sun independently and reflects its light onto a selected target on a 54-meter high tower containing five separate experimental stations, each of which can house several experiments. Light can be reflected toward any or all of these stations, allowing a number of experiments to be carried out simultaneously.

The delegation visited Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science. During a campus tour, they visited the Solar Power Tower which faces a field of 64 large, multi-faceted mirrors (heliostats). Each heliostat tracks the movement of the sun independently and reflects its light onto a selected target on a 54-meter high tower containing five separate experimental stations, each of which can house several experiments. Light can be reflected toward any or all of these stations, allowing a number of experiments to be carried out simultaneously. This is the only Solar Tower facility in the world located on a campus of a research or academic institute and is solely dedicated to scientific work.