Solar Wind Energy Tower

Releases Technical Report on Downdraft Power Production System

ANNAPOLIS, MD - (March 22nd, 2017) - Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (USOTC:SWET) (the
"Company"), the innovator and creator behind the Solar Wind Downdraft Tower structures capable of
producing abundant, inexpensive electricity to meet the world's increasing demand, announced today
that it has released a report explaining How the Evaporatively Driven Downdraft Power Production
System Works.

Ron Pickett, CEO of Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. commented: While fulfilling a request during a
due diligence process, the Company commissioned this report. Management felt our shareholders and
interested parties would appreciate the opportunity to review and perhaps gain a better understanding of
how our solution works from a technical viewpoint, so we decided to release the report today to the
general public.

How the Evaporatively Driven Downdraft Power Production System Works

The earths atmosphere harbors an abundance of energy in many forms. Much of the energy is in the wind.
Although the prevalence of wind farms has exploded in the last two decades, humans have been extracting energy
from the wind for over 1000 years. Vast quantities of clean, renewable, and nearly endless energy also can be
extracted from the atmosphere owing to the ability of water to transform from liquid to vapor and back again. The
energy associated with phase changes of water in the atmosphere drive many major weather systems on earth,
including large rain and snow storms, hurricanes, and thunderstorms.

One of the atmospheres more dynamic systems is the severe downdraft (sometimes called a microburst or
downburst) of a thunderstorm, in which rapidly sinking air (kinetic energy) is produced by the evaporation of the
rain produced by the storm. The evaporating rain cools the air in precisely the same way that your skin is cooled
by the evaporation of sweat (or how you cool-off after exiting a swimming pool); evaporation extracts energy
from the air via the latent heat of vaporization. For every gram of liquid water evaporated within a sample of air
having a mass of one kilogram (a kilogram of air has a volume of roughly a cubic meter in the lower atmosphere),
the sample of air is cooled by approximately 2.5C. Within a thunderstorms rain shaft, air commonly is cooled
to temperatures ranging from 520C colder than the ambient temperature. The amount of cooling depends on
the amount of available rain and the relative humidity (the cooling increases as the rainfall rate increases and
relative humidity decreases). In storms with hail, the melting of hail produces additional cooling via the latent
heat of fusion. The cool air is denser than its surroundings, and the dense air sinks to the ground owing to this
negative buoyancy. Moreover, because liquid water is roughly 1000 times denser than the air in the lower
atmosphere, the substitution of rain for air within the rain shaft effectively contributes an additional source of
negative buoyancy.

The downdraft air accelerates downward as long as it remains heavier than the ambient air; thus, large downward
speeds can be realized if the air remains cold (negatively buoyant) relative to its surroundings over a long
downward trajectory length. In a severe thunderstorm downburst, cold air can experience a downward
acceleration over a depth of several kilometers, easily attaining downward speeds of 50 mph or more. When this
downward jet of air hits the surface, the air necessarily turns toward the horizontal and flows along the surface.
The deflection can result in even faster horizontal wind speedsoccasionally over 100 mphwhich can result in
extensive damage, even exceeding the damage produced by a weak tornado.
The Evaporatively Driven Downdraft Power Production System works in precisely the same way as the
thunderstorm downdraft. A continuous spray of small water droplets is introduced at the top of the tower. The
cooling due to the evaporation of the water droplets, combined with the weight of whatever liquid water droplets
remain unevaporated and fall through the tower, causes the air to become much heavier than the air that was
previously in its place in the tower. The heavier, denser air sinks through the depth of the tower, is forced to turn
horizontally at the base of the tower, and ultimately passes through the turbines as it exits the tower (though at
speeds far less violent than in the most severe downbursts observed in nature!).

As air flows out of the base of the tower through the tunnels, air is continuously drawn into the top of the tower
owing to the principle of mass conservation, and the spraying of liquid water droplets into the air entering the top
of the tower maintains the evaporative cooling. Just as is the case for a thunderstorm downdraft, the cooling
potentialand therefore downdraft potentialis dictated by the amount of water evaporated, which depends on
the ambient relative humidity and available water.

There is a limit to how much evaporational cooling can occur, and ultimately how much power can be generated,
because the air cannot be cooled indefinitely by injecting more and more water droplets. As water evaporates and
the air cools, the relative humidity within the tower increases. Evaporational cooling ceases once the relative
humidity reaches 100%. The temperature reached at this so-called saturation pointthat is, the minimum
temperature achievable through evaporational cooling, and the temperature that determines the magnitude of the
negative buoyancy, downdraft speed, and ultimately the power outputis known as the wet-bulb temperature.
Very roughly, this temperature lies midway between the ambient air temperature and ambient dewpoint (the
dewpoint is temperature at which air would become saturated if cooled while maintaining a constant water vapor
concentration, that is, not spraying water droplets into the air). As an example, if the ambient temperature is 40C
and the ambient dewpoint is 0C (typical desert conditions in summer), the wet-bulb temperature is 17C. The
corresponding ambient relative humidity is 8%. If this air is brought into the tower and cooled to saturation (i.e.,
cooled until the relative humidity reaches 100%) by evaporating water droplets into it, the resulting temperature
will be 17C, which is a whopping 23C cooler than the ambient air temperature (a temperature perturbation of
23C). An air sample this negatively buoyant would experience a downward acceleration equal to the
gravitational acceleration (9.8 m s2) times [23 / (273.15 + 40)], that is, 0.72 m s2, where the factor multiplied
by the gravitational acceleration is the temperature perturbation normalized by the ambient temperature, in
Kelvins. To give a sense of how significant this downward acceleration is, if there was no horizontal deflection of
the sinking air near the ground, this downward acceleration would result in a downdraft speed of 61 mph after the
air descended just 500 m.

Assuming that sufficient water is available to be sprayed into the air in order to saturate the air, the amount of
cooling, downdraft speeds, outflow speeds at the tower base, and power output increase with decreasing relative
humidity. For this reason, a desert region is the most suitable site for a downdraft tower. Moreover, power output
would be maximized in the late afternoon (when ambient relative humidity tends to be a minimum) and
minimized near dawn (when ambient relative humidity tends to be a maximum).

About Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc.

Founded in 2010, Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc., and its wholly owned commercializing subsidiary,
Solar Wind Energy, Inc., is the inventor of the patented Solar Wind Downdraft Tower, which uses state
of the art technologies and construction systems to produce abundant, inexpensive electricity, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
The Company's core objective and focus is to become a leading enabler of clean, efficient renewable
energy to world communities, at a reasonable cost, without the destructive residuals of fossil fuels, while
continuing to generate innovative technological solutions to meet tomorrow's electrical power needs.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.solarwindenergytower.com, and https://www.facebook.com/solarwindenergytower and
https://twitter.com/SWETower and https://www.arizonagreenpower.com

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Statements included in this release may constitute "forward-looking statements". Actual results may
differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements. Such statements involve a number
of risks and uncertainties such as competitive factors, technological development, market demand and
the Company's ability to obtain new contracts and accurately estimate revenues, if any, due to
variability in size, scope and duration of projects, and internal issues in the sponsoring client. Further
information on potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results, can be found in the
Company's various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Contact:
Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc.
Phone: 410-972-4713
E-mail: info@SWETower.com