The science behind New York design firm Atelier DNA’s “windstalks” is simple kinetic energy; the same energy found in a field of swaying prairie grass. Like many of the Land Art Generator exhibits, Atelier takes it cue directly from Nature to deliver resource-economical and highly effective but visually intriguing forms of energy and energy conservation.

The Land Art Generator initiative is a series of aesthetic yet fully functional energy generating and efficiency measures produced by collaborating artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, and engineers.

Sponsored by Masdar City, an emerging, clean technology zone located outside Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, the competition awarded Atelier’s offering, simply named Windstalk, second prize.

Masdar City, which aims to be the world’s first carbon neutral and self-sufficient city via clean energy technologies like wind and solar, is being built by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company.

Inspired by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the city is the UAE’s answer to developing a clean technology hub. Ironic, that the very area which has so far offered us little but polluting fossil-fuel forms of energy is also showing us the way to a sustainable future.

Windstalk has also successfully evaded the more common complaints surrounding traditional wind turbines, namely, that they are noisy, emit annoying vibrations that affect humans, cows and other animals, and kill birds. In addition, designers have managed to incorporate energy storage that mimics hydropower.

Windstalk specifications call for 1,203 highly flexible carbon fiber poles 180 feet high and one foot in diameter at the base tapering to 2 inches at the top. The poles are filled with piezoelectric ceramic discs alternating with electrodes connected by cables along the length of each pole – one cable for positive-pole electrodes, another for negative-polarity electrodes. When the wind blows, the flexing of the poles compresses the discs, generating a charge which flows through the electrodes. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, at the top of each pole glow brighter or dimmer depending on the amount of energy being generated, or go entirely dark when the wind isn’t blowing – a clever but ludicrously expensive barometer to calculate desert sandstorms.

For more on Abu Dhabi’s clean energy technology, visit Energy Boom’s emerging technology page.

Image credit: Dario Nunez and Thomas Siegl
Source: EnergyBoom

Hi there eco friends, we are inviting you to be part of the first and only expo who operates nation wide. African Boma National Eco Expo with SANBI, will be hosts to the largest and most authentic outdoor exhibition from 3-5 June 2011. This one of a kind exhibition will focus on nature conservation, living ‘green’, tourism, adventure sport to outdoor living in Southern Africa. A fun family outing not to miss.

The following events are planned for 2012.

Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch
Lowveld National Botanical Garden- Nelspruit
Bloemfontein
Pietermaritzburg
and Johannesburg

all held in the National Botanical gardens, thus makes this nature conservation effort a national event (dates to be confirmed).

Don’t miss out on an unique opportunity to present your product/services to an anticipated 10 000 plus outdoor addicts.

The perfect way to network and promote your business.

Starts at Friday 9:00am. Ends, Sunday 16:00.
Fees:

Fees for three days:
- 6X6 = 36 m2 @ R6000,00 ex Vat,
- 4X4 = 16 m2 @ R 3500,00 ex Vat. (with electricity),
- 4X4 = 16 m2 @ R 2900,00 ex Vat. (No electricity),
- 3×3=9 m2 @ R750,00 ex Vat.

So without further ado – for more info and specifics please feel free to reply using the email address below and we will send you info on how to book OR be part of this great event 2011.

Yours sincerely

Melissa Geyer
(Green Market Organizer)
afriboma@gmail.com

Each and every person to date who has come up with truly free energy solutions has been silenced. The biggest mistake is that they try to keep under wraps what they have created, at some point they get the media involved and within a few months their web sites, their company and even themselves are nowhere to be found. The moment free energy thinkers get consumed by greed and the thought of becoming millionaire’s from their invention is the moment they start their slippery decline into never-never land.

Free energy is exactly that FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE ….. what part of the word FREE do people seem to not understand? Sharing ideas and concepts freely with the world at large through the internet is the quickest way for these free energy motors and generators to actually start being built and to come into existence. Keeping them under wraps serves no purpose whatsoever other than to satisfy your own human ego.

People seem to have a misconception that if they share their information someone will steal it, duh that’s the whole point. The more people who know how something works the better because only then will control slip out of the  hands of the oil companies, power producers and governments who control us. If 100,000 people all build the same thing then no single person can own it, no person can patent it and no person can stop it being built.

If you publish FREELY your ideas and designs on the internet and within the next 3-6 months 100,000 of these devices are built and in existence is that not a good thing? Of course it is because when you are one man with one idea you can be silenced, when the information is shared globally it becomes a lot more difficult if not impossible to silence people.

As for free energy ideas, almost 99% of the ideas surfacing today are all based on the work of scientists like Tesla, Johnson, Bedini etc. Merely taking them and rehashing them does NOT make them your ideas, but after thousands of hours in your workshop you do start to believe that you thought of it ….. uh no you did not.

Wasting time and money trying to patent your ideas is only going to see you a) wasting money and time b) never producing a single working retail unit c) being bought out or silenced or d) ???

So people if you want to start talking FREE energy, let’s get serious and talk FREE !!! Until then what you are doing is no different than what the oil companies and governments have done all this time, control people.

The only way the world will change is if YOU change the way YOU think !!!