Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!jonab From: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: New elecricty generation technique Message-ID: <865@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 12:34:42 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.865 Posted: Fri Feb 24 12:34:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 12:44:16 EST References: <16843@sri-arpa.UUCP> Reply-To: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 17 In article <16843@sri-arpa.UUCP> BILLW@SRI-AI.ARPA writes: > Solar energy is used to distill water and send the steam to a tank >atop the fence, where it condenses. Gravity moves the water; under >pressure, it forms the charged aerosols, which are then blown by the >wind to create electric power. Marks calculates that a fence one >kilometer ( 5/8 of a mile) long and about 300 feet high would, with a >wind of 12 miles an hour, provide 25 million watts. Just what is going to happen to birds that fly into this 300 foot rainstorm of charged droplets? (Crispy critters. :-}) Second, what is going to happen in the first big electrical storm? Doesn't 300 feet make a good height for a lightning rod? Jon Biggar {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!jonab