Wind Tunnel Footbridge
by Justin Thomas, Virginia on 03.20.07
From the man who brought you the Wind Shaped Pavilion and the Transformation House, comes the Wind Tunnel Footbridge. It's a design proposal by Michael Jantzen for a new kind of wind activated footbridge made of steel and aluminum. As the wind blows, the five wind turbine wheels turn at different speeds around the people who are walking through to reach the other side. Three of the five wheels turn in one direction while the other two turn in the opposite direction. As the wind driven wheels turn in different directions and at different speeds, they can produce different electronic corresponding sounds. The Wind tunnel Footbridge was designed to be constructed in various types of public venues as an architectural attraction. The wheels also produce and store electrical energy much like a windmill. :: Wind Tunnel Footbridge
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How does a windmill store energy?
gld - HALT!
We must not use the word "windmill" when describing turbines. A windmill is something that is powered by the wind to grind grain - hence the "mill" .... what you usually see talked about here are wind turbines, not mills....
I like it.
This could revolutionize vertigo...
It is the scary rope bridge of the 21st Century!
This looks pretty silly, disorienting and wasteful. There's no indication the turbines would be used for producing useful energy, merely interesting entertaining sounds. We need better use of space and materials than this. The horizontal axis of this design is only useful when oriented perpendicular to prevailing winds, then only about 50 percent of the time the wind is blowing. A vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) avoids these downfalls, and there are versions that are omnidirectional such as www.windside.com. I'd rather see a bridge lined with or capped with Windside-style turbines. They can be very artistic too.