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Wind turbines are often criticised for their ugliness on our ridgelines or their disturbing noise but French engineers at NewWind have come up with an ingenious solution. An energetic tree.
Mini wind turbine ‘leaves’ on the L’Arbre à Vent (Wind Tree) spin in even the lightest breeze, generating a total of around 3.1 kilowatts of power. All the cables are hidden with the biomimetic tree branches and trunks and the design of the turbines allows them to exploit wind from any direction. And if one turbine malfunctions, it doesn’t compromise the others.
Because the operation is so silent, it enables installation close to the building using the energy, reducing power loss and the unique tree design means they can blend more readily into a suburban or urban streetscape.
From March 12 to May 12, 2015 you’ll be able to see a L’Arbre à Vent in operation in the Pace de la Concorde in Paris. This is the same site on which Archereau stunned Parisians with his demonstration of one of the first experimental arc lamps in 1844.
More at NewWind (non francophones can use their google translator)
