Summary
Survey of recent ways to make solar chimney power plants more efficient and reliable: thermal and phase-change storage, hybridisation with photovoltaics or waste and geothermal heat, better absorbers and glazing, and changes to chimney and collector geometry. PV hybrids and wavy or stepped absorber surfaces look most promising, while storage mainly evens out output and supports night-time generation.
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