Wind dam
Not water dam, not wind power plant. Yes it is realy wind dam. We are talking about futuristic project of architect Chetwoods. He uses a giant spinnaker sail slung between mountains to funnel wind into a turbine. I know that this project seems to be unreal, but believe or not, they want to build this at Lake Lagoda in north-east Russia. -source
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Interesting, I wonder what the rational is? Capital intensity is the usual problem with wind. Does this decrease cost per hour by increasing usable wind time? does it make regular minimal wind usable, as from daily flow up and down the mountain?
We had long considered the architecture but found it not cost effective. We finally settled on created wind hybrids for our current research.
i really admire this plan… this can be very helpful…
hope there are more like you to give us a glimpse of the future…
[two thumbs up]
looks so alien to the environment, and rather helpless. But kind of interesting as a sculptural element.
i was joking haha
i am doing a prject on wind
this is a very helpful picture