In Denmark you have tide and wind, so don't complain. In Australia there's lots of desert without the kind of storms we get in these parts. Horses for courses, as the saying goes.
That might not be a bad idea. If you've got some serious gradient available - and I'm thinking mostly the Andes here - with plenty of sunlight and water you could build everyday, low-tech greenhouses with vents feeding into a tube-generator tacked on to the local mountain range. Moisture could be recovered and recycled as drinking-water in the process. No new engineering would be required - and so it's not terribly sexy. But potentially useful.
Note to self : buy options in the Atlas Mountains. Also check out the Chilean Coastal Desert - in the rain-shadow of the Andes (serious natural gradient), plenty of sunshine, and low-lying enough that desalination for greenhouse irrigation is economically feasible. And currently worth pennies-an-acre.
I knew about the Andean Desert, but without looking it up, didn't think it would have been hot enough. But I suppose that the important thing is the temperature difference between the base and the top of the tower, so it would probably work.
It's bad enough that potential visitors to Australia know about our sharks, snakes, jellyfish, crocodiles and spiders. Now you have to spill the beans on our carniverous, aggressive marsupial.
