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Try reading [assuming you can find a copy] of Genius Unlimited by John T Phillifent. [one of John Rackam's pen-names] from 1972- like the 'Dragon Kiln' {or furnace?} in one of the early books of Leo Frankowski's Cross-Time Engineer's series, they built the updraft power stacks up the side of a mountain rather than free-standing.

that group wasn't looking for max efficiency, but minimum impact on a fragile ecology.

it'd be lots harder to blow into a pretzel than a gas-lfted flex stack, too.