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Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona
MikeChino writes "Australia-based EnviroMission Ltd recently announced plans to build two solar updraft towers that span hundreds of acres in La Paz County, Arizona. Solar updraft technology sounds promising enough: generate hot air with a giant greenhouse, channel the air into a chimney-like device, and let the warm wind turn a wind turbine to produce energy. The scale of the devices would be staggering — each plant would consist of a 2,400 foot chimney over a greenhouse measuring four square miles. The Southern California Public Power Authority has approved EnviroMission as a provider, although there’s still plenty of work to be done before the $750 million, 200 megawatt project can begin."
4 square miles of solar panels in the desert? No that shouldn't be hard to expensive to maintain and keep all those uber expensive solar panels clean and unbroken
Hey genius, where do you think the thermal energy that's being collected came from and went to in the first place?
lol
How many here know why greenhouses are green ?
answer: http://bit.ly/864NW3