Technology

Overview

Arizona Green Power holds the license to a bold new clean energy technology that will provide an abundant source of ‘green electricity’ to industries, utilities, government entities, commercial and industrial companies and projects. Designed by world-class engineering partners, this patented hybrid solar-wind Downdraft Tower is not only revolutionary in design, but also in cost and durability. Tower construction is priced at roughly 1/3 of, and built to last twice as long as solar and/or wind farms – unheard of among renewable energy technology today.

The technology operates in hot, dry geographic locations. In certain areas where atmospheric conditions are conducive, the exterior of the Tower may be constructed with vertical “wind vanes” that capture the prevailing wind and channel it to produce supplemental electrical power. This dual renewable energy resource greatly enhances its clean energy-producing capability and productivity.

The Principle

The Downdraft Energy Tower is a hyperbolic concrete structure with a water injection system at the top that introduces measured droplets of water through a distribution header.
The water droplets introduced near the top of the tower immediately begin to evaporate due to the Sun warmed air at the very top of the Tower.
The natural evaporative process immediately begins to cool the surrounding air inside the top of the Tower. As evaporation and cooling continues, the cooler/denser air inside the Tower descends reaching speeds exceeding 50 mph.
The now significantly colder, denser, damp and compressed air amassed near the base of the Tower flows laterally into tunnels surrounding the base of the Tower achieving wind speeds up to and well in excess of 100 mph.
A patented system of turbines extracts the kinetic energy inside the wind tunnels and generates GREEN ELECTRICITY.

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Demonstration

The demonstration to the right depicts the Tower in operation. The color of the arrows represent the current internal temperature of the air which transitions from hot near the top of the Tower to cold as the air rapidly races towards its base.

REPLACES:

9,201,600 Barrels of Oil/YR
39.9 billion CF of Natural Gas/YR
2,752,008 Tons of Coal/YR

and…

ELIMINATES 3,960,650 METRIC TONS CO2/YR
OPERATES 24/7 & OUTPERFORMS SOLAR COLLECTORS & WIND TURBINES THAT PRODUCE ONLY WHEN THE SUN SHINES AND THE WIND BLOWS
PRODUCES ENERGY AT THE SAME COST OR LOWER THAN TRADITIONAL FOSSIL FUEL FACILITIES
ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT