(US-Mexico Border)
A Maryland energy company is planning to deliver 500 megawatts of power to the electrical grid from a giant hollow tower on the Arizona-Mexico border that would be the second-tallest structure ever built.Two towers are planned, each 2,250 feet tall and costing more than $1 billion. The technology is untested.
Known as a downdraft tower, the project by Solar Wind Energy, Inc., is an untested and hugely ambitious endeavor.[…]
The tower is based on a novel energy technology invented in Israel in the 1970s. Intended for hot, dry climates, the tower is essentially a hollow cylinder, open at the top. Water is sprayed into the opening, making the uppermost air humid and heavy. That heavy air sinks and accelerates, reaching speeds of 50 miles an hour before escaping at the base via 52 tunnels, where the rushing air spins turbines and create electricity.
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I have a friend who built one for his home. He uses it for additional cooling and, something else though not electrical production.
I honestly think "entrepreneurs" and the government are colluding on new and bigger ways to bankrupt the nation and defraud investors (the little ones, anyway). The corruption is so deep at this point, it is institutionalized, possibly beyond repair.
I guess now that they have maximized the economic and infrastructure damage with wind power, while solar power is being resisted hugely too now, they had to find something else to push on the markets.
Oh, right, I think the other use of it is for hot water. It doesn't work for either in every season. It is just something for some times. Currently it cuts the electric bill a bit, but it was made to function in a grid down event, with some application as is. He understands, however, it was a money-sink. As with his solar array.
Although, in a grid-down, it will handily pay for itself in many ways.
I have my doubts about this.
Mainly because of the 2,250 feet tall and costing more than $1 billion?
Will it be made of concrete & Metal?
Can't this be done with old Nuclear plant cooling towers? I know they are not this tall, but they are already there.
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