Under the Gull Wing

Recent decades marked by the search for new sources of energy. It is related to the depletion of natural resources, and hence their inflation and the desire to find the safest way of functioning of industrial civilization. The relevance of these searches has confirmed, in particular, by the accidents at the Chernobyl’s and the Fukushima NPPs entailing serious consequences for the environment.

One of the trends is a receipt of renewable, clean energy – wind power. Now it is steadily growing industry: in late 2010, the total registered capacity of all wind turbines in the world amounted to about 196.6 gigawatt. In recent times there are quite a lot projects of high-rise buildings with built–in wind turbines.

And it is not surprising, because at the top is always a breeze. The “Gullwing Twin Wind Towers,” designed by architects Vittorio Minervini and Giacomo Sanna of Rome with designers Carlo Delzotti and Fabio Lombardi, Ph.D., is an idea for how to generate clean energy in an urban setting – in a manner aesthetically pleasing to the eye. While this is only a concept, which was created for the contest eVolo, but it’s quite possible that in very near future over the roof-tops of the cities will raise towers- turbines, providing us with such energy.

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