Tag: turbines
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Joe Doucet’s Airiva wind turbines are made for city streets and buildings
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Designer Joe Doucet has revealed his Airiva turbine – a modular wind power system that was conceived to have the necessary visual appeal to fit into urban settings. Currently a prototype, the Airiva energy system features two-metre-tall vertical blades with a sculptural helix shape rather than the propeller style commonly seen on large wind farm turbines.…
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Instead of tilting at turbines we should see them for what they are: beautiful | Rowan Moore
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Growing up in the countryside, it was a feature of drives with my parents that electricity pylons would be deplored. So I am familiar with the instinct to oppose wind turbines, which like pylons are large, energy-providing infrastructure, among some country dwellers, leading David Cameron to tighten up rules in 2015 in a way that…
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Turbulent’s hydroelectric turbines provide easy, cheap, and continuous power
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Turbulent’s hydroelectric turbines are aiming to provide cheap, easy to maintain power to regions of the world that haven’t been able to harness hydro power yet. The design creates a vortex using a small turbine, making it possible to use smaller and weaker sources of water, and without harming wildlife or damming up any streams…
