Summary
Textbook chapter covering chimneys used to ventilate and cool buildings and their extension to solar updraft towers that drive air turbines. A simple analysis shows how chimney mass flow rate scales with its dimensions; the tower needs no water but converts only about 1% of sunlight to electricity, a weakness partly offset by siting on barren, flat land.
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