Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the Windstalks generate electricity when the wind sets them waving. The designers came up with the idea for the planned city Masdar, a 2.3-square-mile, automobile-free area being built outside of Abu Dhabi. Atelier DNA’s ‘Windstalk
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Wind Power Without the Blades
Author: ALYSSA DANIGELIS
Source: Discovery News
Publication Date: 25-Oct-10
Link: Wind Power Without the Blades
Source: Discovery News
Publication Date: 25-Oct-10
Link: Wind Power Without the Blades
Stephan: I find this fascinating, and take it to mean that we are already at the launch of a second generation of technology. If you notice technologies move from the mechanical to the electronic -- turn tables, to tapes, to CDs, to mpgs being one example -- and, I predict, the third generation will be biological. Click through to look at the pictures. And the underwater version is even more exciting.
