The immediate benefits of building a SCAF network are multiple.

Firstly it will start actively cleaning the air, beginning the job of reducing air pollution. Not just reducing emissions through green energy production, but actively removing the pollutants already present, such as carcenogenic PM10s, soot, dust and suspended liquid molecules like unburnt fuel. This also reduces the formation of secondary molecules like low level ozone or nitric and sulphuric acid, the base of acid rain.

This engenders secondary benefits such as reducing health costs, fewer asthma attacks, fewer lost work days from pollution related illnesses, fewer deaths related to pollution and helping to improve the overall health of the residents in the immediate zone of effect. Building maintenance costs could gradually be lowered as less damage is done to the stone and concrete due to pollution build up and acid rain.

The benefits to the Environment are far reaching and longterm, such as reduction of global warming gases as well as particulates, and helping to prevent the formation of acid rain.

The amount of pollutants filtred by the SCAFs will depend a lot on their location, but a study of the individual cities' pollution levels in this network show that a network of ten minimum sized SCAFs should remove at least:

3.35 tons a year of PM10 (Particulate Matter 10 microns or less)
0.28 tons a year of PM 2.5 (Particulate Matter 2.5 microns or less)
19.20 tons a year of CO2 (carbon dioxide)
20.33 tons a year of CO (carbon monoxide)
1.77 tons a year of NO2 (nitrogen dioxyde)
1.77 tons a year of O3 (ozone)
0.45 tons a year of SO2 (sulphur dioxide)
0.54 tons a year of benzene

Other pollutants removed will be soot, dust, lead, various nitrous oxides, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and amonia to name just a few. See the Pollutants page for details on the different pollutants available in the air near you. A total of over 47.6 tons of pollution removed from the air every year. These calculations have been made using actual city pollutant level averages (from Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Porto, Rome, Seville, Toulouse and Valencia).

Because the power supplied is virtually immediately available once constructed, city electricity bills would be lowered and the payback period for the technologies used is quite rapid. By having a network of many small power plants, dependency on one power supply is reduced, therefore helping to avoid complete citywide blackouts when the main supply is cut which is inevitable. The electrical goal of the towers is not to immediately replace in totality the main power supplier, but to suplement and backup the existing supplier, therefore helping to reduce pollution caused by power production, such as nuclear waste and emmissions from fossil fuel stations. And for those who believe that hydro power production frees them from this problem, think again. The manufacture of concrete, ie for dams, is one of the largest industrial contributors to GHGs.

Job creation in the city or state undertaking the construction and maintenance of the SCAF network.