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Thermal Solar Plant To Be Erected In Australia

Posted by chrisd on from the hope-there's-a-plan-for-an-elevator dept.

connect4 writes: "An article from the bulletin explaining a plan to erect a 1km high solar convection wind turbine in outback Victoria - the worlds tallest construction. Projected output per tower: 200MW. Cost to build: A$670m. Footprint of tower: 20sq km ."

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  1. Better idea by glowingspleen · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would be easier to build a machine that collects and processes the sweat of the nervous investors on this project...

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  2. Re:More info by ArsSineArtificio · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Considering Australia's size and geography, I'm surprise solar power isn't implemented on a wider scale.

    Because the sun goes down.

    Kind of a shame they got rid of the British Empire, really.

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  3. Re:Good idea... by Heem · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is actually one of the best idea's ive heard in a while. I mean, sure, all the energy combined from the treadmills, bikes and rowing machines at a large sized gym would probably only be enough power to power up the computer at the front desk of that gym, but hell, how cool would that be?

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