Where? Oh, you must be seeing things again. In any event, anyone
who knows chemistry can figure out the above fact. I'm still curious
as to how you get 40 kW/m^3 from variants of solar energy.
A 100~125 meter tall tower will take up roughly 100 m2 worth of
surface footprint at it's base, that which can't easily be utilized
for all that much other than a fluid storage tank or perhaps on behalf
whatever fluid processing that could rather easily be contained within
the somewhat less than 100 m2 interior. However, on top of this
sucker is a good 3.5~4.5 MW wind turbine, and well enough below the
blade sweep is a very large DVD like disk of those 25% efficient PV
cells (we're talking better than twice that amount if using William
Mook's multi-band and special lens enhanced PV cells) that'll track
sunrise to sunset, as well enough elevated above the local terrain and
whatever trees so that full solar benefit is easily maintained.
Of course, further below the 8000 m2 PV disk or array of solar energy
collection that'll more than added those daytime 500 kw is either
common/public open space that's usable as is, as well as capable of
accommodating whatever multi-(<3)-story light commercial structures or
perfectly safe habitats for us humans that can't seem to ever get
enough energy to badly waste.
Of course the tower portion above the large primary disk/array of PV
cells can itself be covered in those conventional PVs of 25%
efficiency, as quite possibly contributing yet another 100 kw by day
without measurably degrading the huge wind turbine aspects of this
tower that's likely made in China.
Thus far that's capable of off-the-shelf averaging more than 4 MW per
100 m2 of a given tower's surface footprint (there's a little more
that's underground, but that doesn't count because it's out of sight
and doesn't detract from land usage), just like I've told each of
those other "The Ghost In The Machine" individuals before.
Of course not every location on Earth is best suited for extracting
wind energy, but most places suited for wind farming or those of
individual private installation sites are typically also good solar PV
sites. So, all and all it's offering a clean and renewable win-win
that's good for safely delivering 40 kw/m2. Like I'd asked before;
how many spare/surplus teraWatts of clean energy would you folks like
Warren Buffett, William Mook and myself to deliver?
One million towers and we're speaking of 4 squeaky clean teraWatts.
1e6 towers X $1e7 each is merely $1e13 of our hard earned loot as
wisely spent over as little as a decade, would have cost us far less
than our 9/11 fiasco, and we'd all be clean energy set for life. I'd
call this one an all out war on behalf of extracting clean energy,
except there wouldn't be any spendy shock and awe of collateral damage
and such massive carnage of the innocent.
Perhaps fewer towers and more of tidal and geothermal derived energy
might become the compromise, of having merely 100,000 such towers, and
the rest of the clean/renewable energy pie coming in from those tidal
and geothermal considerations, plus watever hydroelectric and nuclear
we can mange without causing ourselves more harm than good.
- Brad Guth -
