^^^w^^^^w^ ^^^Rockies^^W^^^ wind-> [===x==x==x==x==x==x==x===] windddd---> (or maybe <--) giant tunnel filled with wind turbines If blowing air across the straw in my drink has taught me anything, it's that the drink in the straw moves up above the level of drink in the glass. Should work with the air pressure differentials from the west side of the rockies to the plains right? All we would have to do (lol) is tunnel some 70-300 miles eastish to westish under the Rocky Mountain range, fill that tunnel with turbines, and hook it up to the power grid. Besides inital upstart cost and potential cave-ins, should be "unlimited" energy that decreases in cost as time goes forward. *Scientific diagram not drawn to scale
semi-related, how do we feel about trying to convert parking lots into solar producers as well as temporary car storage
This would be an effective use of existing tunnels, and I very much like it. And @Dagda, you mean turning roads/parking lots into solar panels? Or ya know, just keep them as they are as big black chunks of tarmac that store vehicles. One is easy to achieve(d).
seems more practical to just layer a bunch of solar over the top of your standard open-air parking lot, instead of trying to get solar panels to function as roads
The way I worded what I said makes sense that this was the response. But your response was what I tried to say in way less words. But roads that ARE solar panels would be cool. Although I guess in pretend future land where we can build roads as solar panels, we aren't using the roads much because flying cars or something.
all a turbine does is spin a magnet surrounded by wire to generate an electric current. isn't the earth already a spinning magnet? all we need to do is build a wire in orbit that circles the earth. on a more serious note, im more bullish on a room temperature superconducting material. its only a matter of time. iow, we don't need a better turbine, we need a better wire.
