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Windstalk – the answer to opponents of wind energy

The symbolic power of bladeless wind turbines  http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/the-symbolic-power-of-bladeless-wind-turbines Critics of renewable energy are obsessed with the costs and practicalities of cleantech right this instant. Visitors to Silicon Valley in the 1970s didn’t see the iPhone coming, either. There are countless innovative new ideas blowing in the wind. Mother Nature Network, Chris Turner 6 April 12,

…….3: “Bladeless Wind Power.” The wind energy plant in question is Windstalk, a wind turbine design without spinning blades that was created as part of a competition to help provide clean energy to Masdar, the sci-fi city being built in the desert outside Abu Dhabi……

Windstalk is notable because it addresses and pretty much completely solves the chief knock against wind power. Namely, the NIMBY thing. The fact that people don’t like giant rotating blades spinning on the horizon, making low-level rumbling soundswrecking the view and giving rise to all manner of specious health impact claims.
And Windstock’s also notable because of all the items on this list, it’s probably got the best shot of actually being built in the next few years. This is because of its affiliation with Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s crazily ambitious future city already rising from the sands of the Arabian desert. Masdar has been hatched as a model city for next-generation sustainability, a wholly self-sufficient, renewably powered district to eventually be occupied by 40,000 residents and 50,000 commuters. There are already solar installations at Masdar. A stretch of track for the Personal Rapid Transit pod vehicles is already hosting traffic. If Masdar’s deep-pocketed sky’s-the-limit dreamers decide Windstalk’s viable, its poles could actually be up and swaying and making power before long.
It’s fun to imagine what kind of wild, pioneering symbol that would represent – that this thing could jump from drawing board to grid in a few short years, changing the most basic understanding of what a wind turbine is all but overnight. Don’t like spinning blades? Wish turbines were quieter? Well, here you go, then!

April 6, 2012 - Posted by | 2 WORLD, renewable

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