Enviro Mission

[lampmanone]

in 1934. This was tested in California, oil was cheap at that time, so it was scrapped.

In the early 70s, low prices started to skyrocket, why did our leaders not do something.. Too much oil money.

[lampmanone]

you only need to think of Japan today, it can happen here.

All things are possible with patience and tenacity, Dan

[sonhoreturn]

@lampmanone That's right! Very true.

[565Customz]

this will never be built. it would cost to much..however a variaant of it may be

[bigrobnz]

A dingo stole my idea!!!

[T2Gibbon]

At first i thought the energy would be generated by the solar panels ... shame on me ^^

Lol if someone gets too close to the tower 'CHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwhoops' Bye...

But i noticed a similar effect next to a Cooling Tower of a Nuclear Power Plant... had to hold my Basecap tight otherwise it would be gone^^

Very Scifi Animation ;)

[Shadyhunter04]

Awesome music.

[hppa1]

It could be a great tourist attraction. And a + for the enviroment at the same time.

[arielavio]

If we use this kind of tecnology, terrorist will not have money from petrodollars...we will not have wars too...

[uselogic]

No. It will not. And certainly less than the cost of war.

[jacoblp]

roughly 1 million US dollars for one tower with unlimited resources seen in the Spain solar tower.

[dekonfrost7]

yea, good point what has the us spent on the war in iraq so far over 100 billion? pluse the lives of enough people to staff  the worlds largest solar energy company. so yea i agree.

[Ondrejkoh]

So good, but tower is very high.

It isn´t real in near future.

[carbonfreefuel]

Finally something that sucks and blows at the same time! Split water with the electricity and enjoy the Hydrogen Economy pollution free for you and me.

[DieMara72]

how to make sure against terrorism? I know it´s a difficult question...but... one chesna could do a lot of harm, doesn´t it?

[ParadeRainer]

The same way nuclear power plants are protected, which can result in a lot more damage if attacked by terrorists than something like this.

[hppa1]

I'm no terroist by I think they tend to go for more effective targets such as the world trade centres which were of great economic importance or the Pentagon which was strategic or places with large populations. This thing is in the middle of the outback and the Australian outback which makes it an unlikely terroist target. I'm sure though they will prepare it for the worst although I've heard the walls are only 1 m thick so a cessna could probably go through one end and out the other.

[Shwamperoos]

1 meter of concrete and steel ... Don't think a small air craft could do much to it... could be wrong though.

[hppa1]

Yeah you are probably right I still think though that terrorist arent going to target it.

[DeliriumSC]

Yea, me too.

[edratliff]

Absolutely. It takes a lot to stand up to a 700mph 747 Jet. 1m of concrete would not do a lot to stop it. Look at the Pentagon. That was thick reinforced concrete walls - not to mention the layers of kevlar and whatever else they used to make it "blast proof". That tower is going to be less stable than a skyscraper. Skyscrapers are built to carry heavy loads WITHOUT moving.

[edratliff]

So therefor it is very rigid. The solar tower is not going to be built to those specs. Thats why it uses the cables at various places within the tower - to stabilize it kind of like a bicycle wheel.

This kind of design also makes it suseptible to susceptible to heavy wind loads. Look up the YouTube vid of a glass breaking when high frequency sound waves are thrown at it. The soundwaves are kind of like heavy winds in this case.

But hey, engineers say it can be built. So DO IT ALREADY!

[ptclouds]

Now that is something cool!

It's gonna make an amazing tourist attraction, assuming you can get anywhere near it..