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Solar Chimney

Truly halfbaked way to get sunlight
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Basically a solar collector /concentrator on top of a very tall pipe that goes beyond the cloud cover to collect sunlight for your building.

The pipe would have to be _very_ sturdy and have a large light concentrator on top of it.

This might be practical for a skyscraper, or implemented as a tower in a small, northern town (with typically low cloud cover) to re-radiate the sunlight from the appropriate (below-the-clouds) height on cloudy days.

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cowtamer, Nov 14 2008

Seasonal Solar Lighting Seasonal_20solar_20lighting
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Light Tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube
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       Something to watch out for when you set up a solar collector is the energy used to make it, which can so easily exceed the energy you will collect over a typical 20 year life span. For a simple solar panel this is not a problem. For what is essentially an additional skyscraper on top of a skyscraper, it might be.
Bad Jim, Nov 17 2008
  

       Would it go on top of a mountain?
Mony a Mickle, Nov 18 2008
  
      
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