What are the advantages of the AVE (Atmospheric Vortex Engine) compared to a solar chimney?
The thermodynamic basis of the AVE (Atmospheric Vortex Engine) and the solar chimney is virtually identical. However, the AVE has some significant advantages 1) A tall chimney is not required. The atmospheric vortex engine replaces the chimney with centrifugal force of a vortex to generate a “virtual” chimney. The construction of an extremely tall chimney (1 km as in the Enviromission proposal) is not required. 2) The height of a virtual “vortex chimney” could extend much higher into the atmosphere compared to a physical chimney structure. As the height of the vortex increases, the temperature of the cold source drops which increases the overall Carnot efficiency of the process. 3) A large solar collector is not required. Waste heat can be obtained from various sources such as from thermal power plants, waste heat from various industrial processes, or simply ground level heat from solar radiation received at the earth’s surface in its unaltered state. 4) The chimney and the solar colle
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