The space-saving, long operating, and cheap vortex plants of large power
intensively combine solar, either waste and secondary, or geothermal
heating of slightly pressured water with use of wind, giving competitive
electricity and water production without firing of fuel, extensive
convection collector, mechanical sucking of free air, overstressed moving
parts of vortex tower, or large number of air turbines. The embodiments
of plants due to different climate and regime include simplified and
compacted vortex tower with staged system of forcing and controlling jets
of saturated steam along vortex channel, flow-through electric generator
with rotated drum or magnetic concentrators, and regime storage at use of
waste or geothermal heat, and at use of solar heat under mainly positive
ambient temperatures. For starting up and flexible operation during cold
winter at absence of wind, solar radiation and hot free air, a compacted
off-seasonal storage of high heat density is used for solar heating,
storing and flashing of water, and heating and acceleration of saturated
steam and wind or sucked air supplying kinetic energy and heat into
vortex tower.