Wind based Aesthetic Static Structure for Ubiquitous Renewable Energy: WindASSURE

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Title
Wind based Aesthetic Static Structure for Ubiquitous Renewable Energy: WindASSURE

CoPED ID
96578982-694b-4ceb-87c8-f7b7be0e67ce

Status
Closed


Value
£106,934

Start Date
April 30, 2017

End Date
Oct. 31, 2017

Description

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In general the public find wind turbines ugly and they will protest their installation in urban areas and areas of natural beauty. This stifles the widest deployment of wind energy harvesting. Because of this public impression, organisation’s like sports stadiums, councils, hotel chains, and highway agencies cannot easily integrate turbines into their buildings infrastructure and therefore cannot add wind renewables to their low carbon footprint planning. A good alternative to turbines would be sleek static structures, of architectural beauty, designed to please, designed to include functionality such as messaging and lighting. They would operate at all wind speeds and could therefore be deployed everywhere. Organisations could have them integrated in their buidlings (either at design time or later) and have their cosmetic appearance and shape customised to suit a given theme or context. Blending into the surroundings, these structures would meet with limited protest at the planning permission stage. Supported by public acceptance, cheaper to buy and install, they would be far more widely deployed and begin to compete with urban solar. Our aim is for WindASSURE to act as an enabling technology, opening up new markets, new manufacturing and export opportunities.

DENNIS MAJOE PM_PER
DENNIS MAJOE PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Wind energy
  2. Planning and design
  3. Renewable energy sources
  4. Turbines
  5. Wind
  6. Architecture

Extracted key phrases
  1. Ubiquitous renewable Energy
  2. Aesthetic Static Structure
  3. Wind renewable
  4. Wind turbine ugly
  5. Wind
  6. Wind energy harvesting
  7. WindASSURE
  8. Wind speed
  9. Public impression
  10. Low carbon footprint planning
  11. Public acceptance
  12. Urban area
  13. Planning permission stage
  14. Urban solar
  15. Sleek static structure

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