The Future of Green Architecture: A Live-In Power Plant

Ah, human error, I hope their fact checking is better than yours, and I hope someone builds this or something like it soon and develops small buildings that also generate more than they consume as the majority of Americans do not live in skyscrapers. However, the caption on the last photo "revolutionary" should say 10,000 megawatts.

While most Americans do not live in skyscrapers more than 50% live in cities, and for the first time more than 50% of people globally live in urban areas. These advances could be huge. But, I agree with you. Distributed generation needs to be for everyone. Also, the caption on the last photo may or may not be wrong, but not for the reason you state. It says that the 5 MW turbine contributes to 20,000 MWhs annually. With 8,760 hours in a year, this means it generates 2.28 MW on average. Why the 2.28 MW and not the 10MW? Because the sun isn't always out when the wind is blowing, and vice versa.

Doesn't Germany already generate enough electricity via residential roof-top photovoltaic panels to power 1/3 of the country? Mount solar panels now instead of waiting 20 years for this behemoth to pay for itself.

Kind of a disguised power plant A?
I think we should take another look at geothermal heating
and cooling. It would certainly save the world a lot of oil.
It's nice to know that people are looking for alternate energy sources.
Specially after the fighting in Iraq and the not the first time, more recent oil leek that's destroying the coastal waters.
They really should try to faze out the use of fossil fuels.

This looks like the same failed high density condo scam that has wrecked cities like Miami and Seattle.

The only ones who promote density are the people who own downtown real estate.

Most would wisely live in single family homes or low rise garden apartments.

Because of the advancements in Hydrogen technology under the Bush Administration, it will soon become reality to have home energy independence rather than high density enslavement such as you promote.

What the sad fact is, that as long as big money and companies are able to control the people that are elected to run our country thru lobbiest's and camppaign contributions. We will never become an independent country as we once were! the only and best way to assure a great future for our great country will be when we are able to conntrol who conyrols the money that our politicians use to get elected! It is an uphill battle which the American people need to demand! Until this happens our country will always be run by big interest groups which is not in the best interest of the comman man!!!!!!!!! Whatwe need to do as a country is demand that all nominated candidates recieve the same amount of money to run for office! It is IMO the only way we can FREE!

Expensive! If the FocusFusion.org project continues to make rapid progress, within 5 years or less it will be possible to produce generator plants with zero waste that can crank out 20,000MWh per annum for less than $1 million, plus about $70,000/annum in fuel and maintenance.

I assume that the whole building will resonate to the thrumming of the wind turbine when it cranks up. Lovely! If you like that kind of thing.

This kind of technology is inevitable. Duck, what you say makes no sense because photovoltaics are horribly expensive and inefficient compared to direct-sun heating of salt passed to turbines. Power suppliers learned that a long time ago, and many are creating their solar plants with that in mind. Photovoltaics are only efficient if you don't have enough space to melt salt in adequate quantity to overcome the inefficiency of moving it around.

This is obviously designed for a high-sun, high-wind environment. For areas like New York, the would have no such advantage. Only the tallest of the buildings could generate this kind of power. For many of them, you could collect the rain water that hits their upper stories and generate energy off of THAT, though.

This is one way to rid the city of pigeons Cook them in-flight as they fly thru the concentrated light close to the salt collector. Or maybe the noise from the wind turbine would keep the pigeons and people away from this monstrosity.

Lets hope they will factor in the access for the general general maintainence ...

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This idea is very nice but what if you used the same amount of money to fund creation of LFTRs worldwide? One rare earth mine collects enough thorium annually to quench the whole of the worlds energy demands for one whole year. Not only that its the safest most efficient and less wasteful power plant design yet. 1kg of thorium when used in a LFTR is the same as 13,000 barrels of oil in terms of energy produced.

Please educate yourselves about thorium, right now the governments of the world do not seem to care for the technology despite it being proven and tested and used in the past.

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