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New York Wind Turbines
Okay so I had this thought. The winds that travel in between skyscrapers in big cities much reach colossal speeds, these winds could be used to generate energy. So why not install wind turbines in big cities? Here's a small render I made:
Noise; from what I've heard wind turbines can be quite noisy, something that big cities usually have enough of.
Accidents; Wind turbines a prone to break when the winds get to high. Turbines can break and scatter parts. This would of course be extremely dangerous in big cities if people live or travel near them.
But if they were installed in places where people don't travel, like in secluded alleys, with some kind of protection around them, it might be safe.
Thoughts?
Random afterthought: 3 dimensional wind turbines? Hang them on an axis and the could turn with the wind, like a flag hanging on a flagpole. => More efficient turbines?
Simple enough? Well here are some problems:
Noise; from what I've heard wind turbines can be quite noisy, something that big cities usually have enough of.
Accidents; Wind turbines a prone to break when the winds get to high. Turbines can break and scatter parts. This would of course be extremely dangerous in big cities if people live or travel near them.
But if they were installed in places where people don't travel, like in secluded alleys, with some kind of protection around them, it might be safe.
Thoughts?
Random afterthought: 3 dimensional wind turbines? Hang them on an axis and the could turn with the wind, like a flag hanging on a flagpole. => More efficient turbines?
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Comment by Elastika on March 19, 2010 at 6:16pm
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In Slovenia, where I'm from, environmentalist are against building wind turbines in the country side, because they say that birds can fly into them and get killed.
So I think putting wind turbines in the city where (due to pollution and noise) is not so many birds can be a solution.
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Comment by Martin Dyer on March 19, 2010 at 7:56pm
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Very creative! I've got a post about how SA is simply moving towards more renewable energy with the use of wind power. The post (http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/wind-power-cape-towns) focuses on the Darlington Wind Farm near Cape Town. Might be worth taking a look at :). All in all though, a great idea with nice rendering!
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Comment by Agent H on March 19, 2010 at 9:36pm
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(+1) for Courage. It is always more difficult to be an innovator than to follow best practices (I read that on someone else's blog). I like this idea - there are already walkways spanning buildings in many cities, so this is a more practical application of that type of spanner. Could you have this turbine attached to a walkway somehow, so that there could be multipurpose? Alleviate some pedestrian traffic at the same time?
Great effort. Really.
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Comment by David Anderson on March 24, 2010 at 7:22pm
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Great use of wasted space.
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