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WALL THERMO PIPE PROPOSAL

Leveraging thermodynamics into the wall would begin with hollow piping throughout the miles long concrete wall. The wall attracts heat. The internal pipes are heated. A heat transfer fluid running throughout its length would draw and store energy.

FLUID IS LIQUID

The downfall is that thermodynamics requires a hot and cold difference, and an infinite heat sink, such as a lake. The greater the difference, the more efficient is the system, and the more useful work out of the scheme.

FLUID IS GAS

That leads to a more doable approach. When the heat differential is between cold nights and warm days, an efficiency can be achieved. As the day warms up, the gas compresses which stores potential energy. The compressed gas would generate electricity.

The capacity is tremendous, over hundreds of miles times a large cross section of internal pipes. So the wall would store much energy.

During the evening or night time, the fluid cold air would replenish the pipes.

ALTERNATE ENERGY STORAGE

An alternative approach would support the solar arrays along the wall, by storing its energy as compressed air in the wall’s internal pipes. During off hours of the sun, when no solar energy is available at nightime, the compressed air can continue to provide energy. It can doubly store windmill generated energy, which also is intermittent.

This would be a historical first, that is, the storing of an alternate energy source of power; solar or wind. This would solve the interruption problem that sun and wind intermittently go away and come back, along with the energy. That means you can dry your clothes any time of the day or night.

I do have some experience in XC-NA inverters.

The solar needed doesn’t need to be on the wall.

It just provides the power. Many folks have a picture in their mind of a wall of panels. Well, get rid of that.

It would be a series of small systems that feed the wall
needed for surveillance power. They would be 3000 feet away from the wall. That’s all.