French Award-Winning Design for Wind Turbine

[Nathanael]

This is a really cool innovation:

Winners of the 2009 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition have come up with an innovative solution for renewable energy call Wind-It. The proposal: inserting wind-turbines into ailing electrical towers to generate and provide additional power to any existing grid.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/french-award-winning-design-wind-turbine-towers

[silverweb]

1. Very nifty!

The manufacturer's website has better pictures _here_.

[supernova]

2. Those clever French!

:applause:

It looks like a spiral turbine, a design that has be floating around for a while. Still, sticking in in a transmission tower is genius. :-)

[Nathanael]

4. Genius

These sort of designs and creations are testaments to human ingenuity. And, most importantly they highlight the fallacies of oil and coal industry claims that renewable technology can't generate enough power to sustain society--there are hundreds and thousands of ideas and designs like this out there.

[NV Whino]

3. Great idea!

And welcome to DU.

[Nathanael]

5. Thanks

This forum is huge. I am glad to be a part of it. There are so many people to share ideas and stories with.

[texanwitch]

6. What a great idea.

Those could be put everywhere.

[NV Whino]

7. These are already everywhere

The towers, that is.

[texanwitch]

8. What a neat idea.

The hill country is very windy, with lots of towers.

[texanwitch]

9. Off to the greatest page.

Just think of the energy this could create.

In the hill country where I have some land, the wind is always blowing.

My Aunt's old windmill never stops, unless we stop it.

[kgrandia]

17. Those huge electric towers

Are always positioned in pretty barren tracts of land, so I'm assuming the chances of a good wind are pretty high.

[jfkraus]

10. Cool!

[unpossibles]

11. K&R. very cool!

Welcome to DU.

Also, nice avatar. :D

[Nathanael]

19. Glad You Like It

Thanks for the welcome.

[byronius]

12. Great Post.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Great idea

And they thought of it while riding a high speed train.

Is Europe going to be the next technology center for the world? I sure don't see many new ideas coming from North America any more.

[Nathanael]

18. They're Coming

Ideas are coming from North America, but I believe, on the whole, Europe has been more progressive on the renewable energy and clean tech fronts.

[Optical.Catalyst]

21. Of course North America has new ideas

We have new ideas about making robot drone aircraft that can fire a missile through the window of a school filled with children

We have new ideas about how to shoot down nuclear warheads that will never be launched at us

We have new ideas for a future combat soldier that is plugged into the network and can kill like ten soldiers did in the past

We have lots and lots of new ideas

[mopinko]

14. that is so f'ing smart.

man, i hope we are going to be stealing this idea.

[bigmonkey]

15. Bucky Fuller pointed out this synergy in the 70's.

As I recall, he made a back-of-the-envelope calculation about the huge benefits of wind turbines on high-tension towers, even with the technology of the time.

[SeattleGirl]

16. Very cool!

I like that a lot!

[JohnWxy]

20. talk about efficient use of space!

[progressoid]

22. And you can buy them at IKEA!