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Basically a solar collector /concentrator on top of a very tall pipe that goes beyond the cloud cover to collect sunlight for your building.
The pipe would have to be _very_ sturdy and have a large light concentrator on top of it.
This might be practical for a skyscraper, or implemented as a
tower in a small, northern town (with typically low cloud cover) to re-radiate the sunlight from the appropriate (below-the-clouds) height on cloudy days.
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Seasonal Solar Lighting
Seasonal_20solar_20lighting
[cowtamer, Nov 14 2008]
Light Tube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube
[cowtamer, Nov 14 2008]
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Something to watch out for when you set up a solar collector is the energy used to make it, which can so easily exceed the energy you will collect over a typical 20 year life span. For a simple solar panel this is not a problem. For what is essentially an additional skyscraper on top of a skyscraper, it might be. |
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Would it go on top of a mountain? |
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