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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 ."

5 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. Shouldn't Yahoo fix this bug? by Derci · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I mean.. like.. duh!

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  2. Re:Great article at... by TheMidget · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm glad I followed that link at work.

    Always let the mouse hover on any link in Slashdot before you click on it. This will display the link's true destination in the browser's status bar, and any goatsex reference will be obvious (unless the prankster space-padded the link as well...).

    Note: I said browser, not Internet Exploder. Not sure whether IE is able to give such advance warning.

  3. Social Engineering by Merkins · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is gonna get me flamed to a well done crisp, but.....

    We (I.T. type people and Slashdot readers/posters) are very quick to point the finger at our stupid users when they click on attachments proclaiming their love ;)

    However, the second someone posts a link about open source, everyone jumps on it without a quick check to see what it really is.

    Interesting.......

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  4. 802.11b and a 1 km Tower by brotherofstlopus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wouldn't need no stinkin' satellite.

  5. Thermal Solar Plant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine if they erected a beowulf cluster of these!