Sounds good! Let's hope it works out.
EnviroMission plans massive solar tower for Arizona
"The sun beats down on a large covered greenhouse area at the bottom, warming the air underneath it. Hot air wants to rise, so there's a central point for it to rush towards and escape; the tower in the middle. And there's a bunch of turbines at the base of the tower that generate electricity from that natural updraft."
More from the article:
- The advantages of this kind of power source are clear:
- Because it works on temperature differential, not absolute temperature, it works in any weather;
- Because the heat of the day warms the ground up so much, it continues working at night;
- Because you want large tracts of hot, dry land for best results, you can build it on more or less useless land in the desert;
- It requires virtually no maintenance - apart from a bit of turbine servicing now and then, the tower "just works" once it's going, and lasts as long as its structure stays standing;
- It uses no 'feed stock' - no coal, no uranium, nothing but air and sunlight;
- It emits absolutely no pollution - the only emission is warm air at the top of the tower. In fact, because you're creating a greenhouse underneath, it actually turns out to be remarkably good for growing vegetation under there.
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