Hey Jason;
You are onto something there. A massive thunderstorm is very much like
a heat engine which transports heat from the surface into the upper
troposphere. The troposphere can be thought of as the cold side heat
sink with an average temperature of -20 C. This heat engine does all
I keep remembering things like this... but there was a solar wind generator
somewhere or another (maybe it was never built, i dont know, i read about it
in a magazine in the dentists office) the design was a tower built on a
massive greenhouse that was open at the bottom so solar energy could