I hardly need to say anything.
Anyone who has paid attention to my posts can just "channel" what "Doug
would say" and save me the effort. Nevertheless, I can't resist a
couple of observations:
Positive: I don't think I've heard this one before...
(Is
that because it's too dumb for anyone to have publicized it? Or
is it the long-awaited neglected obvious solution that was in front of
our noses the whole time? Votes anyone?) (Hey my mind is open
just a crack, but this has most of "the symptoms"...
Negative:
1)
What happened to the giant solar-wind towers of Australia and Spain
from a couple years ago? Same tower with fans around the
periphery of the base, except it used sun to warm air, that went
up. Same extravagant claims, same null results. Except
nobody ever bothered to actually BUILD these giant hollow towers.
Hmmm... But if they HAD, they might have claimed water injection
near the base would reduce air density by evaporation, enhancing the
UPWARD flow... (see below)
Wait - I just checked, it's going to be "the tallest structure in North America":
The small southwestern Arizona town of San Luis has approved the $1.5
billion Solar Wind Energy Tower Inc. project, which will result in the
tallest structure in North America.
Bloomberg News reported today the structure would be 2,250 feet tall.
(The good profethor ith never content with thmall thepth.)
2)
Dare I invoke the good professor? His solutions to "improve" wind
turbines, currently built with about 2% solidity, inevitably
instead use 100% solidity. He never explains how it will be more
economical to build a 400-foot-tall concrete structure with solid
walls, than to hoist up a few slender blades using a crane and be done
with it in a few days. Hmmm...
3) Let out aviation experts
verify: humid air is less dense than dry air, and lighter in
weight. That would "weigh against" the higher density of cooler
air. In the end, does the increased humidity cancel the cooling
effect, resulting in no net density change? (They MUST have thought of
that, right? But some of you may have noticed that the average
idiot maintains that humid air is HEAVIER than dry air because, they
say, "it MUST be"...)
4) That is a lot of water to use, in a
desert that always needs water. Fresh water in a desert = energy
= money. Do they have numbers? Sounds like enough water for
a decent-sized CITY.
5) Does the energy gained even cover the energy needed to pump the water to height?
6)
Where's the scale model to show how great it works, so we have the
confidence to build a bigger one? Or does it serve them better to
remain in the good professor's office, while they sell stock ) ticker
symbol SWET
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SWET
Looks like it's tripled in the last few weeks. Can you say
"pump-and-dump"? Before that it had dropped by almost 100%.
7)
Looks like the company has been around as a penny stock for 10
years. In 10 years what is the biggest demo they've built?
Why not?
In summary, this has the good professor's grimy fingerprints all over it, like his glasses.
Sounds
like a sexy idea, but is there anything there at all? If so, how
could they have resisted building one? Oh wait, gosh I hate to
bring it up, but one of the good professor's major symptoms is "We can
only build our first prototype at an absolutely GIGANTIC size, becuath,
you thee, we are theriouth about thith, and are not content to meth
around with thmall-thcale tholuthionth!
My advice to the
profethor: FInd an existing scenic waterfall on a cliff
somewhere, ruin the tourist attraction to build an enclosure around it,
and see if it even works!
Why would any one talk about a
giant version with all those fans around the periphery, when they could
just build one tube and use one fan to prove the concept first?
Ah,
forget it. Seems that there's no field so full of nutcases than
clean energy. And the city officials that approved this?
More rocket-scientists, no doubt.
Will they ever build this tallest structure North America?
Should we place bets?
drumroll pleathe....
OK I'm done. :)
Misc. clip figure from one of his patent application. 
