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Deserts are very dusty climates, and it is not obvious to me that dust sucked into the turbines will never become problamatic. I found a reference to a prior prototype which says, "The prototype for the tower operated for seven years in Manzanares Spain and consistently generated 50kW output of green energy." Why was this ended after only seven years? Did it get clogged with dust, or did it just run out of money?

Good topic for a follow-up article.

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