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Re:World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power ... by grecy on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @12:27PM (#6445540)
For years there has been talk of building a 1km "solar tower" in my home town.

The basic plan is multiple square kilometers of greenhouses surrounding a 1km chimney. The air inside the greenhouses will heat up and rise up through the tower at high speed. The bottom of the tower will be filled with 32 generators, for a total of 200MW.

http://enviromission.com.au/EVM/content/home.html

I still hope they build it.

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Re:World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power ... by benkillin on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @02:09PM (#6446247)
This is called a solar updraft tower (I like to call it a solar chimney): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
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