Monday, February 27, 2006

What do you do when you want to build a wind turbine?


Build towers that will create the wind!

...British architect Atkins decided to incorporate large-scale wind turbines into the twin-tower Bahrain World Trade Center, currently under construction in Manama...
This meant that the two towers had to be designed in such a way that they would funnel the onshore wind between them, as well as creating a negative pressure behind, in order to accelerate the wind velocity between them.
Read this piece of sheer brilliance here...

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