here is a similar technology on a grand scale. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/01/05/australia.tower/
turn the fans off and this baby would shoot you to the stratosphere in a jiffy. Joe Street wrote: > Kewl! > > Me and my hang gliding buddies have been talking about something like > this for a while. We are interested in using the convective force not > to drive air through filters but rather to trigger larger convective > currents in the air. Yes I am talking about a thermal generator. It > would be so nice to have a "house" thermal always reliable and present > on the location of our airfield. Jason do you have any data on the > device? What kind of air flow rate does it produce? Is there an > optimal shape, are there advantages to building it next to special areas > like a woodlot or a pond from which it can draw cool air, or is it > better to have it in say an open feild where it can draw air which is > already somewhat heated by the surrounding soil? What about materials > choices for cost vs. performance tradeoffs? > > Joe > > > >>"Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted: >> >><snip> >> >> >> >> >>>P.S. for a look at another of my ideas to fight air pollution go here >>>http://homepage.urbanet.ch/scaf/pages/flat_tab_medium_indexpag.html >>> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > -- Bob Allen http://ozarker.org/bob "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" — Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
