eVolo Skyscraper Competition Entry - TWISTER

On March 27th 2015, the eVolo magazine awarded it's first, second and third place prize winners, as well as honorable mentions for their yearly Skyscraper Competition. This is the 9th consecutive yearly competition, see winning entries here eVolo Winners 2015. Although not particularly interested in skyscrapers, I was curious enough and ready to try my hand at something different. My professional career is focused on housing, multi-housing, in specific the affordable kind. I haven't even been presented with the opportunity to explore skyscrapers in school. It was definitely a challenge, but mostly regarding time-management (meeting deadlines at work, as well as this competition), and trying to remember how to use 3D Studio Max (the pain and suffering of having to switch on a regular basis between Archicad on Mac, and 3D max on Microsoft, not to mention that I didn't touch 3D Max in over 3 years). Could the architecture have been further developed? Yes. Could the socio-economic platform have been better defined? Yes. Could the graphics have been sexier? Probably not. Anyway, here's my humble approach at the Vortex, an energy harnessing, tornado catcher slash global cooler. The idea came pretty fast, and it was further developed once a quick Google search led me to the Atmospheric Vortex Engine. In short, in abour 200 years, when climatic events will start to become extreme, unpredictable and catastrophic, these giant tornado catchers will create controlled tornadoes, and use them to #1 create clean energy, and #2 stabilize extreme temperatures, winds and atmospheric pressures, in attempts to avoid further worsening of the global climate. The way it works: hot temperatures are sucked in from lower heated earth or water levels, and pushed up to mix with cold temperatures at higher levels, this creates a pressurized vortex. The hot air is sucked through turbine chambers, and as the vortex intensifies, more rotations generate electricity/energy to be stored in giant batteries, accumulators. Here are my two boards, I was entry number 593. Please visit the eVolo site (link above) for mentioned entries.