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solar chimney

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solar chimney [‚sō·lər ′chim·nē]
(engineering)
A natural-draft drive device that uses solar radiation to provide upward momentum to a mass of air, thereby converting the thermal energy to kinetic energy, which can be extracted from the air with suitable wind machines.
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