Solar Wind Energy Tower Inc. (fka SWET)

[dog turd cannon]

WARNING:

Let me explain how SWET's tower is advertised to "work":

SWET will lift water up 2500 feet. The water will be lifted by a mechanical process, pumping which will suffer losses in efficiency. Then the water will undergo a state change and fall back to the Earth to generate "wind". This wind will power turbines, which again will lose energy to friction.

For every unit of energy to raise the water you will only gain back a fraction of that back. It will always use more electricity to raise water than is gained back in the water falling.

What SWET is proposing is a beyond unity machine. A concept that people have been pitching as reality for centuries.

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

I am sure everyone has heard of perpetual motion machines and knows these are impossible.



And, beyond this reality on the scale that SWET is proposing this tower will do nothing but generate rain in the tower. Certain concepts of physics don't scale very well. In this case, this tower would (if it existed which it never will) create wind patterns for sure but they will be turbulent. Laminar flow will not be achieved in the tower.

And then you have the necessary concern of constructing a tower that is 2500 feet high and nearly as wide. Picture this. Go outside and picture a structure that is taller than the tallest skyscraper AND is a medium size scraper wide. The the circumference is measured in miles. How long do you think it would take to build such a structure? How long do you think it would take?

For those of you that have been to Disney... Space Mountain it only 150 feet high (if you remove the spire)...