Finish pls.

Yay :) The video made me very happy. Thanks for sharing.

Do you seriously get surplus energy despite pumping water from 46 miles away and then 2000+ ft up in the air?

I was wondering about that too. Plus the energy required to desalinate the seawater.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower (downdraft)

My first thought was that they were building an updraft tower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower

http://www.livescience.com/2644-giant-solar-tower-power-futu...

Me too. The difference is that a solar chimney makes sense, kinda. I have no idea what this downdraft tower nonsense is. Converting potential energy to kinetic? 46 miles of pumping expensive water?

Right... I've heard of the concentrated solar towers which create an updraft to drive turbines in a very tall chimney, and seen suggestions that they COULD be made to be net energy return on energy investment positive. But this one is pretty new to me. I think it's time to pop over to see what the folks on TheOilDrum.com have had to say about this - they must have seen it and are probably ripping it apart by now.

From your link: "no data on a working pilot plant have ever been collected."

I smell snake oil.

I'm a fan

http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vati...

Interesting how it just accentuates the fact that they use images for most of the text and menu.