Eco Factor: Urban Wind Power system to generate renewable energy.
The rise in demand of clean energy has made energy companies think of possible locations where wind farms or solar plants can be constructed. Student designer Christian Grossi from the Swinburne University has come up with a different proposal. Grossi believes that instead of generating renewable energy in rural areas and then transporting it to the urban world, it would be a cost-effective approach to generate renewable energy using existing city infrastructure such as telephone poles and electricity towers.
The designer has come up with a concept called the Alternative to Current (AtC) Urban Wind Power System that uses existing power poles for wind energy generation by mounting a small vertical-axis wind turbine. All aspects of residential and city streets and how people interact with them have also been taken into account.
Grossi states that the output of one AtC unit will be about 705KW/h and power can be generated for as little as 28 cents a KW/h. Moreover, since electricity is never being generated at a distant location, minimum setup will be required to convert wind energy into grid-friendly electricity.
