Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
The Oz project, as I heard it, was a 1 km high guyed steel chimney and 27 km2 of greenhouses containing enormous black finned water reservoirs.
Saturn,
I went to the web site again under "materials" they wrote the chimney would be made of Reinforced high streangth concrete. And the turbines from lightwhieght Alloy (AL?) "as used in aircraft manufacture."
Steel would be a better option for building up, way up, just like the "Skyscrapers", and TV antenas.
Why use concrete instead of steel?
Does steel release the heat too (conducts) quickly, while concrete has the "thermal mass"/ heat sink ability to make the theorhetical science work?
Problem could come in by actualy trying to build such a thing out of concrete....
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