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Dutch Architects Create A Habitable Windmill That Could Power A City

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Morenike Adebayo

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1366 Dutch Architects Create A Habitable Windmill That Could Power A City
Artist's depiction of the futuristic-looking skyscraper. Doepel Strijkers.

Gently spinning windmills have been a cornerstone sight along the Dutch countryside since the 1890s. With the population increasing into more built-up, urbanized areas, positioning more wind-powered turbines to power busy cities could be impractical.

The Dutch Windwheel, however, is generating energy in a completely different direction.

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The state-of-the-art creation is from Dutch architects Doepel Strijkers, who designed the 173-meter-high (570 foot) structure to utilize wind, water and an electric field in an electrostatic wind-energy converter that can directly produce a current for power.

To combat the issue of a giant single-purpose structure in the middle of a busy city, Doepel Strijkers have engineered this multi-purpose building to be safely habitable while it churns out 1 megawatt of electricity – enough to power 1000 average U.S. homes.

“We wanted a 100-percent-sustainable building that serves as a platform for all kinds of innovations,” developer Lennart Graaff said, speaking to Popular Science.

The self-powered tower is quiet, low-maintenance and looks like something out of a science-fiction novel.

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Doepel Strijkers estimate a Dutch Windwheel could go into construction to be erected in Rotterdam by the early 2020s.

[H/T: Popular Science]


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