A New System for Open, Location Independent, Reliable, Clean and Renewable Energy.

Incorporating These Ideas Into Other Structures

or How New York Could Be More Energy Self-sufficient
or Why Air Conditioning is a "Bad Idea" in Moderate Climates

The ideas and concepts presented here are from the belief that classic air conditioning was a solution that works well in hot climates, but it migrated into moderate climates due to "cheap" energy prices and is not a good idea for regions that have much lower temperatures in winter or at night. This is based on applying the concepts of the bi-directional tower to existing structures. The idea would be best suited to structures in moderate climates where buildings require relatively equal amounts of heating and cooling per annum.

In hot climates where the winter temperature still requires building cooling, regular air conditioning possibly could be made more efficient by transferring the heat into the ground, but unless it was a circulating supply or large cooler body of water that dissipated the heat, eventually the ground storage would heat up and the system would become innefective. This makes applying this solution in hot climates location dependant and it would only work where there is access to a large flowing cold source. In hot climates it probably makes more sense to just pre-heat domestic hot water with the building heat to enhance the performance of regular AC and radiate the rest into the air.

Rather than using electricity in classic air conditioning systems, the heat could be moved to a large underground storage chamber during the summer months. In this manner, the solar heating of the building and all of the heat generated within the building is partially used for electrical power generation and the "waste" heat is stored in a large underground mass.

During the summer months the heat is transferred into the cold ground.

During the winter months, this heat is transferred into the colder ambient air and used to generate electricity. Some of the stored heat can be used in a classic ground source heat pump to heat the building.

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