Wind Power: Wall of wind turbines are safe for pets and children and can run as a stand-alone system or be paired with a solar panel to generate power at overlapping times

Wind power has played a key role in helping national grids around the world reduce reliance on fossil fuels to generate power, but wind turbines for the home have found very slow uptake due, in part, to their not very attractive structure. .

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In this line, thanks to the technological advances of recent years, wind energy is starting to gain more and more prominence, from large generators designed to be placed on the high seas to small solutions focused on buildings, where designers and architects have a lot to say about it. .

They are undeniably stunning to look at! The inconspicuous wall of wind turbines can hide in plain sight and produce over 10.000 kWh

According to the designer, the unobtrusive wall of wind turbines can hide in plain sight and produce over 10.000 kWh a year, enough to power an American home.

New turbine seamlessly integrates into current urban environments and has nothing to do with traditional wind generators

Precisely from New York, the design studio led by Joe Doucet has created a wall made up of small wind turbines and that can be placed either on the fence or in front of a wall to generate electricity. A solution that integrates perfectly into current urban environments and has nothing to do with traditional wind generators.

One of the reasons given by this design studio is precisely the appearance of this type of generator. Unlike solar panels, which are often concealed on rooftops, wind turbines pack too much of a visual punch to waste on top of a house.

To make generating electricity from wind less intrusive, the designers created what they call a “kinetic wall”. It is made up of an array of rotating propellers that spin individually, in turn driving a mini generator that supplies electricity. The wall “is designed to be both aesthetically and functionally pleasing,” they point out.

Kinetic wall can function as a standalone system or be paired with a solar panel to generate power at overlapping times

Each wall would feature about 25 vertical turbines, each connected to a 400-watt generator for a total peak power of 10 kW. As a rooftop solar setup, they can be connected to the grid or run through a battery system for storage. Doucet says they will be “almost silent”, producing “no more noise than a gentle spin”, as well as being safe for environments with pets and children, as there are no pinch points in the swivel and even a small one could easily get in the way. for the light blades to rotate.

Capable of catching wind from any direction but vertical, they could function as a stand-alone system or be paired with a solar panel to generate power at overlapping times. Doucet says he wants to keep these walls "very accessible"

Doucet envisions a structure made of aluminum, which can be coated with any lightweight material. The designer also said he is in talks with manufacturers who could see the product released to market sooner than expected. An ingenious project, which could be an ecological answer when it is impossible to implement a traditional wind turbine.