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arm. One such design is from New York based Atelier

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habi’s Masdar City.

second place at the inaugural event that proposed

gy producers could also be pieces of art. “For this project

ompetition for a specific site for a specific program,public art that also generated electricity in some

the project’s founding architect Darío Núñez-Ameni.

arbon fiber reinforced resin poles – reminiscent of

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er. These lifelike reeds consist of piezoelectricelectrodes are connected by cables that run

le. The LED lamps flicker in the night and sway in

enough energy to power a neighborhood, while

of neighbors who claim typical wind farms are

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nd farm is the coolest of them all? Trying building

tica. That’s exactly what New Zealand’s Scott Base

d States McMurdo Station did two years ago when

bases began the concept design behind Ross Island’swo years later with the help of New Zealand’s Meridian

ctica New Zealand and National Science Foundation,

nes were installed on Crater Hill, one of the coldest

orld. Enercon turbines were installed specifically to

eme climate conditions of the site where little repair isven during under 40 degrees winds, the turbines are

heir hardest.

reme conditions, the construction team was forced to

he summer – a minimum of just four months – when

24 hours a day. In such an environmentally sensitiveble wasn’t just accessing the site to build in 69 mile per

ut to do it in temperatures of -35F to 45F. In 2010, the

mpleted and today Scott Base and McMurdo Station

gh a transmission grid, reducing the diesel fuel level by

d CO2 greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1200t.

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Europe and the United States have done

offshore energy, but Hammerfest Strøm was the

first to create a wind farm 100 meters under the

sea. As the first “wind” farm under the sea, it’sa push to say that these turbines are generating

electricity from the same environment as those

above ground, but through the 300kw prototype


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it’s energizing similar electrical forces. Installed

in 2003, these farms use both potential

energy (from the head of water) and kinetic

energy. Tranquil days don’t matter underwatereither, where tidal power provides a

constant energy source.

After four years of testing, Hammerfest

Strøm expects a wind farm of 20 tidal turbines

to be installed before the end of the year inScotland’s Pentland Firth and the Sound of

Islay, and Ireland’s North Antrim. The company

constructed the original tidal turbine prototype,

the HS300, in 2003 and tested it for four years.

After its success of connecting to the powergrid through the conversion of kinetic energy

to electricity, Hammerfest Strøm welcomed the

HS1000. The second device handles just as much

energy and is set to be fully installed in sites by

the end of the year.



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In September 2010, the world’s largest offshore wind farm was completed just 12 km off Foreness

Point near Kent. The project, which includes

100 Vestas V90 wind turbines, was developed

by renowned Swedish wind operator Vattenfall,

who have helped supply Europe with some of thelargest wind farms in the country. Thanet has been

attracting the attention of environmentalists since

2008 when Vattendfall first acquired the land, as

it’ll generate enough to power 200,000 homes a

year – enough to ease the Government’s mindset






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about meeting their renewable energy target.It might not seem like such an audacious project

while standing at the harbor in Kent, but swim

just seven miles offshore and the 100 turbines will

overtake the ocean landscape. In full capacity these

massive offshore wind turbines can power half of Kent, a number that impresses whether or not

residents’ energy bills have gone up in price. While

not innovative in terms of aesthetics, Thanet is just

one of many wind farms in development over the

next decade.

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