Actually, Emilis, if they form they would be "cloud streams" not streets. Reichman points out the difference.
Regards Bob Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emilis Prelgauskas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:17 PM Subject: RE: [aus-soaring] Manmade Thermal? > At 12:23 PM 18/02/02 +1030, Anthony wrote: > >Mildura Rural City Council has welcomed enthusiastically EnviroMission's > >announcement that scientific testing has started at Ned's Corner Station > >The power station will be based on German designed Solar > >Tower technology. It will look like an enormous greenhouse canopy with a > >very tall hollow ventilation Tower located at its centre. > > It is to be expected that the site will routinely form its own identifier > cloud. Whether cloudstreet forms in windy conditions will be interesting to > observe. > Scale is everything in using passive technologies. Past trials have often > been too small in the mid range. At micro level the stuff works differently. > Detail issues include the impact on the soil and vegetation around the > greenhouse base (dessication and local wind). > The unit can be expected to damp down thermal convection within a radius. > Gliders will have to have reserve height to go to the mapped source. > Some of the tower thermal's energy will be extracted by the turbines in the > shaft. > The German trial unit was 200m, a 'model' compared to the intended 'real thing'. > I don't think the operators will care, just as wind farms don't. > > One electric winch in a German gliding club is a stationary (built into > place) unit powered from a solar photovoltaic array grid connected. > Fine if you can always take off the same one way. > -- > Emilis Prelgauskas > B.ARCH ARAIA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
