How are cooling towers relevant to the Atmospheric Vortex Engine?
Cooling towers are commonly used to transfer heat from thermal power plants or other industrial processes to the atmosphere. Using the waste heat stream intended for a cooling tower to generate a controlled vortex offers the potential of extracting additional energy by rejecting the heat to the much colder upper troposphere (more on this in section 7 of the FAQ). Wherever there is an existing cooling tower or other abundant low-temperature heat source, there is potential to use the waste heat as fuel for an atmospheric vortex engine. The diagram below illustrates the essential elements of a cooling tower and also shows the similarities in heat transfer compared to a naturally occurring waterspout. At the base of a natural waterspout, spray from warm sea water transfers sensible and latent heat to the rising air column. Proven, existing technology from the cooling tower industry can replicate the heat transfer conditions which exist at the base of a naturally occurring waterspout. Some
