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Jed,
The proposed Australian tower ( German patent) reminds
me of the first product we designed and built.
We later learned to challenge all initial
designs by using another design team to " see if they could
improve it".
I asked our design team to comment.
Interesting suggestions on the tower were
offered.
Combine the useful purposes .Desalinization,
electric power generation, mineral extraction, fish farming ,etc.
Use a battery of Fresnel lenses to contentrate
sunlight to produce steam thus reducing land area required to trap
heat.
The tower height and land size could be substantially
reduced by redesigning the tower in the shape of a gourd (pot bellied base
and funnel neck top) with vortex creating inner wall shapes to accelerate
the flow. Steam condenses in the cool zone of a vortex. A vortex loves water
vapor. The water column represented by the condensed water represents
useable head pressure for a combination water/wind turbine.
Locate the tower near the seaside for source of
water.
And last: be sure a vortex creating tower IS WELL
GROUNDED !! It is an electric generator in itself.
Richard
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