How About Tornado-Power Plant? :d

[haram]

Idea is to arificially create similar conditions which forms whirlwinds/tornadoes, or some form of air streams, from sun heat or industrial/urban waste heat, to ensure persistent wind power production.

 

Canadian innovator Louis Michaud has some working models on smaller scales:

http://vortexengine.ca/index.shtml

http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2012/12/14/billionaire-peter-thiel-founder-of-paypal-funds-ontario-man-to-build-prototype-for-tornado-power-concept/

 

 

... and there are other projects:

 

- from Georgia Tech

http://www.seeker.com/dust-devils-power-energy-machine-1767261928.html

http://www.fmrl.gatech.edu/drupal/projects/solarvortex

 

- chinese Solar Chimney, so far largest in the world

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1487659/solar-chimneys-may-help-solve-chinas-energy-woes

 

- earlier german working prototype in Spain (and some others)

http://www.solaripedia.com/13/371/5025/solar_updraft_tower_in_manzanares_spain.html

 

 

- some more tech stuff:

https://architecture.mit.edu/sites/architecture.mit.edu/files/attachments/lecture/SolarUpdraftTower_Project.pdf

http://www.solaripedia.com/files/972.pdf

http://www.jocet.org/vol4/283-C0020.pdf

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0354-9836/2011/0354-98361100017A.pdf

https://eurekamag.com/pdf.php?pdf=036477144