Comments on: Dan Zaslavsky's Tower That Vacuums Up Greenhouse Gases

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:16:24 +0000

I have met him and he is the one from the Technion.

By: Charles Campbell

Charles Campbell — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:25:50 +0000

Is this Professor, Dan Zaslavsky, related to or acquainted with another Technion Professor by the same or similar name? I knew a Dan Zaslavsky (spelling?), who was a PHD candidate at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, circa 1958/1961. The Dan Z I knew was most interested in soil and water conservation, studying a meld of Civil and Agricultural Engineering. His wife was Aviva, and they had 2 children. My wife, Barbara Campbell, and I would be very happy if my Dan Zaslavsky was known or related to the young Professor who has created the Energy Tower. Thank you for any information you may have. Charles Campbell

By: Michaelc

Michaelc — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:27:58 +0000

If you altered the structure of the tower so as to have offices and apartments on its outside walls it would defray the cost of the tower, make it more attractive for use in populated areas and provide an additional source of income to the owners. With the tower providing water, power, housing, and workplaces this may be the shape of the city of the future. Combine it with some of the vertical farming concepts and you could have an entirely self sustaining city.

By: Frank Adam

Frank Adam — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:23:36 +0000

For starters one would go up 15 miles North of Eilat at Timna from where its water & power would develop the Arava region . Ditto a trio of Jordanian towers 3 miles and inland South of Aqaba to pipe water to Jordan’s cities. Other good sites are say ten miles outside each of Australia’s coastal cities along the Chilean and Peruvian coasts and Namibia and S. Africa’s “Skeleton[West] coast – and the coasts ofthe Gulf of California to sell power and waterto LAand Arizona! The beauty of these new now desert areasis that with a bit ofcommon sense planning the tower with associated industry and town could be kept at a distance from each other.

For bonus these towers would see over 100 000 cubic kilometers of air through them each day and with a bit of chemistry could extract CO2 and produce ammonia as a substitute for oil or pure hydrogen fuels. As ammonia is NH4 and burns without any carbon releasing only Oxygen, water and Nitrogen it might be the answer to the CO2 problem.

By: Juan M. Serres

Juan M. Serres — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:37:08 +0000

I found the E.T. idea fascinating but I am a bit dissappointed and intrigued to see that the project has not been started after 25 years. If the project is feasible I cannot believe there is no money to put it into practice.
Juan

By: Gz

Gz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:11:03 +0000

do any exist today and how long would one take to be constructed

By: Claire :)

Claire :) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:53:22 +0000

I am on the debate team at my high school and i am running energy towers as my affirmative case. i think energy towers are an amazing idea and this site is very helpful for finding information.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:28:43 +0000

How much will this project cost and how many are going to be put up.

By: Thawan Kesmala

Thawan Kesmala — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:46:55 +0000

Can I combine Energy Tower with Solar Chimney in a simple way exploiting chimney and reversed chimney effects?

By: Karin

Karin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:57:52 +0000

Nice comment on the comment, Jack! You give me hope.