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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from kingkingg]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from avonleackate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Super Chimney site is not looking correctly.
http://www.bestgraniteforless.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from lfstevens]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's Wikipedia's take: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from garyh]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a wise man once said, don't worry about people stealing your idea; if it's any good at all, you'll have to ram it down their throats. Some people will always think an idea is bad. It is an exciting time to be an idea guy, especially in digital products and services, because the cost to create a prototype is lower than ever. Bringing a product to market of course remains the tricky part. My latest bad idea is Enduroo, the social game for people who hate meetings.  Now, I don't think gamification in all it's forms is necessarily a good thing. Companies using game theory to squeeze more productivity out of people? No thanks. But unofficial gamification is, well, devilish good fun. And if it produces more efficient meetings in the process, then the world might indeed be a better place.  I thought, Dilbert would like this idea, and that was good enough for me.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Marklar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm certainly a fan of huge ideas, but unfortunately this one is based on bad maths and physics. The air will go nowhere unless it is heated as in a solar chimney. 1) The equation he uses is for air of different temperatures at the same altitude, you cannot just plug in values for air at different altitudes. 2) The equation is an approximation for relatively short chimneys and does not take account of adiabatic cooling due to expansion which happens faster in an enclosed tube than it does in the atmosphere (he says the opposite in the FAQ, which is incorrect).

Scott, there are many &quot;solar chimney&quot; projects, not &quot;super chimney&quot;.

For many awesome (if sometimes silly) ideas, visit www.halfbakery.com 
(my ideas: www.halfbakery.com/user/marklar)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DennisBPeterson]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A great avenue who anyone who wants to work on fixing climate change is climatecolab.org, a project at MIT. They run annual contests, and if your proposal is one of the winners, MIT pays your way to present your idea at Congress and the U.N.

I'm just a software developer but managed to get wins in both 2010 and 2011 (eg., see the 2011 entry Cycling Carbon). We talked to the Secretary General's advisory team on climate change, the people in charge of the Rio 20 conference, and congressional staffers.

I'm going to email the superchimney guy about this, I think it'd be a great contest entry. At a minimum the idea would get feedback from the professional climate scientists who pick finalists.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from roccoernest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I can solve all the world's (starting with the US anyway) problems a lot easier and cheaper. I've been experiencing them improving my life now, so it's easy to say.

President Adam's enacts the following laws:
1. The biggest assets to people (as far as I can see) are your health. President Adams enacts a new health tax that works out really simply: every year, once under doctor's supervision, you get your bodyfat tested. Anybody with a bodyfat over some figure (18% for men, 25% for women) has a tax added to the income tax. 
2. Upon turning 18, or graduating HS., or any time if you haven't done it up to the age of 60, everybody does a year of national service. During that time you exercise, learn basic skills like fitness, self-defense, basic technology and emergency preparedness. You also travel the world, during which half the time you are doing peace corps kind of work. You are forced to get out of the US for a bit, maybe work in some extreme poverty, and work places with a different mindset. All these people will also be building basic infrastructure. 

Just doing these two things will give our citizens two things we lack: fitness and some basic confidence building skills. These are more important than a crazy chimney.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from KristinKailey]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,

You had a post a few weeks ago about eliminating banks and loans going between people, etc.   Check out a site called FundingCircle.com.  Its a UK site that basically does a lot of what you were talking about, i.e. creating a marketplace (like kickstarter or even ebay) for loans to small to mid sized businesses.   The site puts a grade on the potential loan based on collateral, guarantees, etc and a recommended rate of return given the estimated risk.   Check it out, looks like someone beat you to your own idea.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from pkrakow]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you like big crazy ideas, try Atlantropa on for size (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa).  Dam the Straight of Gibraltar to provide enormous amounts of hydroelectricity and lower the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 metres, opening up large new lands for settlement.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tomiPhone]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hbmindia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A similar idea to combat global warming was mentioned in one of the Freakonomics books . If I recall what was mentioned in the book correctly, the chimney can be a simple flexible tube of plastic or some other material. But that chimney was not intended to generate electricity - it would simply reduce global warming.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Therion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On second thought, you wouldn't necessarily need to move the chimney (impossible anyway because it's so big). The rate of rotation of the Earth would be different from the rate of rotation of the atmosphere. Thus, all the atmosphere in a great circle will be vacuumed by the chimney. If there's also lateral motion of atmospheric gases by diffusion then it's possible that all of the atmosphere will be vacuumed just from a stationary chimney.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Therion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The only way this chimney could stop global warming is if it were mobile and could move across the Earth's surface. Like a carbon dioxide vacuum cleaner. That's potentially a good idea.

The rest of it seems to be rather dopey and is less a question of standing on it, more a question of standing in it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from AtlantaDude]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the website his five kilometer tall chimney would have diameter of 1,000 meters.  
Assuming a wall thickness equal to one tenth the diameter, you get a 100 meter wall thickness.
The circumference of the chimney would be 1,000 x 3.14 or 3,100 meters
a 100 meter thickness times the 3,100 circumference = 310,000 sq meter base.
310,000 sq meter base times 5,000 meter height = 1.55 billion cubic meters of concrete
The Hoover Dam has 2.5 million cubic meters (3.25 million cubic yards) of concrete

So basically, the chimney would require stacking 620 Hoover Dams together vertically.   Of course, the base would implode by the time you stacked more than a couple of them, so you would have to significantly increase the wall thickness, eventually making an outer cone that would probably be closer to 6,000 Hoover Dams worth of concrete.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@cpbrown1 - Edison never finished that thought though. Creativity is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration, and 100% stealing that guy's work and making money off it. (I'm not endorsing doing it that way, just describing Edison.)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from cpbrown1]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a truism from Thomas Edison about creativity - that it's 10% inspiration and 90%  perspiration. 

I think that many people today think that every life changing idea comes in a &quot;blink&quot; moment, and neglect to understand the work involved in bringing a great insight into reality.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BobNL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@Phantom: It's a shame you always weaken your arguments by beating down on the government. The same kind of people who work at government institutions also work at corporations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BobNL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1 for the title alone.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Phantom II]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hmmm.  snappybob is right.  When you go to the link Scott lists, you get a bunch of Chinese characters.  I also tried just typing in the URL - same thing.

I began to think of the Illuminati, and then of the Trilateral Commission, and finally of the Petroleum Institute.  Call Occupy!  Picket the Internet!!!!

But then, I Googled &quot;super chimney,&quot; and the link on Google works.  So snappy (may I call you snappy?) if you want to see the site, and the link in Scott's post doesn't work, then you can Google it and their link will take you to the site.  Not that I'm endorsing the idea, but it's fun to look at.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bah, I was linking to a better start page there in the censored bit, but the site is solarroadways.com]]></description>
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