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There's a related technology that creates downdrafts by cooling air. In a region with warm air near cold water (like, say, Los Angeles, with cold ocean water), injection of the water at the top of a large tower can cool the air, causing it to descend.

This was proposed to be used, again in Los Angeles, as a way to not only generate power (via turbines at the bottom of large hyperboloidal towers) but also clean pollutants from the air. I don't think it ever went anywhere (probably too expensive) but it would work at least in principle.




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