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It might be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower_%28downdraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower_%28downdraft%29
by DabAsteroid 18y ago
It might be this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower_%28downdraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower_%28downdraft%29
- ash 18y agoThanks for the link! Citation: "Currently, no known physical implementation of an energy tower exists." The article refers to another similar concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower "A research prototype operated in Spain in the 1980s."
- DaniFong 18y agoThese designs are quite silly. In fact the best location for a solar updraft tower is in between the forest floor and it's canopy. In fact, there are already billions of implementations of concept, taking advantage of the entropy differential between the strata of forest biospheres: trees.