Per Lindstrand, whose work in balloon manufacturing led to his world-first Pacific crossing with the Virgin founder, is leading the British attempt in the race to commercialise a 110-year-old idea for a solar updraft tower.
The Swedish-born aeronaut believes the tower, which uses rising air heated by the sun to drive turbines, could provide an alternative to photovoltaic generation in remote areas of seismic activity where maintenance of power lines or solar panels would be difficult.
Read the complete article published by The Engineer, 19 November 2013