"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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Solar chimney & Eco Button
This is an innovation that combines exitisting technologies to use thermo-dynamics to reliably drive a wind turbine.
http://www.renewablepowernews.com/archives/728
http://thefutureofthings.com/news/1101/the-rise-of-the-solar-tower....
From Wikipedia:
"The solar updraft tower is a proposed type of renewable-energy power plant. It combines three old and proven technologies: the chimney effect, the greenhoue-effect, and the wind turbine. Air is heated by sunshine and contained in a very large greenhouse-like structure around the base of a tall chimney, and the resulting convection causes air to rise up the updraft tower. This airflow drives turbines, which produce electricity. A successful research prototype operated in Spain in the 1980s, and many modelling studies have been published as to optimization, scale, and economic feasibility."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
Although the concept has been around for a while, its potential is only now starting to be harnessed. Last year the Minnesota State University conducted a study of the potential to develop this solution on a small scale to make it suitable for use in, for example, regional Africa.
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.ab...
There is also potential to use the solar collection space at the base of the chimney as a greenhouse.
On the other side of the equation, minimising energy consumption needs is also part of the solution. The Eco Button is a gadget that saves power on your computer; and when you have to hike for miles to recharge, that's got to be a boon.
La5t one! Better efficiency for power generation from wa5te heat: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s2868471.htm
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