Re; deriving Power from Atmospheric PD

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:52:49 -0800

While Richard Macaulay is pondering the fact that the inner ear's electrical

sensitivity rivals the 10^-21 watts/cm^2 of the most sensitive radio telescopes

and "telepathic" communication between humans or animals is uncanny. :-)

The delta T between a metropolitan heat source solar, auto exhaust, paving, buildings etc.

through a thermally insulated tunnel should result in a power-generating "Chimney Effect" 

if the tunnel is vented at a higher elevation at a lower temperature.

Fred

http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Sep01/2484.html

"Dale Quattrochi is a senior scientist with the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He tells us that the heat island effect can act like a pump that drives a city's weather."

""What we're actually finding is that because the city is hotter, that is, the surface of the city is hotter than non urbanized areas, because of the surfaces in the city that actually absorb sunlight throughout the day - what happens is there is a chimney effect that is set up over the urban area itself. And this chimney effect pumps up hot air into the lower atmosphere, and what happens is it essentially sets up a low pressure system over the city. And this low pressure system sucks in, or brings in cooler air from the outside. And cooler air is denser than warmer air, which means that it falls down into this chimney. As it falls down into the chimney effect, it gets heated up - of course hot air rises. And as hot air rises, it condenses, it forms clouds and it rains. And it rains over the city or down wind of the city, as we've found.""

----- Original Message -----
From: Frederick Sparber
To: vortex-l
Sent: 11/2/05 6:43:54 AM
Subject: Re; deriving Power from Atmospheric PD

I dunno Jed, But I think a sloping tunnel dug from Los Angeles to Pasadena
bypassing JPL would alleviate the smog problem (a similar vent with fans
was proposed when I lived there in 1954 before they did away with back-yard incinerators)
and rival the  Australian 200 Megawatt 3800 Ft. "Solar Tower" in the works.
 
I'm not all that familiar with the topography in that area anymore, but ?
 
Fred
 
 
 
Downtown Los Angeles, 330 Ft. 34° 03' 08"N, 118° 14' 37"W
 
 
Pasadena, by Bear Canyon 3600 Ft. 34° 14' 42"N, 118° 09' 10"W:
 
 
 

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