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Originally Posted by pai mei
Spain built one with an area of 244 m diameter, it worked for 8 years and generated some 50kW at it's maximum, until it was closed due to "structural problems"
I would like to see these towers wherever there is space for them, their simplicity is inspiring
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This is the problem. In the space of 244m you generated about 5* what a standard emergency generator did.
Edit: Hosed my math and I'm no longer at home with the numbers, but it would take a crapload of these working as 100% efficiency to power a Western nation.
Its cool, I like it, I could see where it might have uses, but its not a solution to anything but perhaps some local issues in this form. Concepts for these are fantastic, in the science fiction 'fantastic' sense. They would be the tallest structures ever built by man, cover miles and miles of land, and only be really usable in certain climates.