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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
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Posted: Fri Feb 24 12:34:42 1984
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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
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