Today, we mostly use nuclear and fossil fuel sources to fill the energy needs. Day after day, it is becoming more serious problem we have to face along with poisonous wastes, deadly accidents and concerns about exhaust of natural resources. Future comes with both sustainability and environmental concerns. This is because there is a rising tendency to green power sources like solar and wind power plants. However, these environmentally friendly power plants also require power transmission lines to transmit the harnessed energy from plant to our homes. For this reason, products with cables will begin to give their places to self-feeding products which produce their own energy and not depend on power sockets.

Mebrure Oral, a Turkish industrial designer, has sought to address these problems by coming up with a novel concept that not only uses green energy, but also looks good. His creation, titled the Windtulip, uses a vertical axis turbine to trap wind which is then converted into electricity. The aesthetically appealing streetlight that looks like a tulip flower harnesses the wind’s power, which is transmitted to a transformer and batteries. The stored energy is then used at night to illuminate streets. LED lighting enable to work even in windless weather.

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Pinwheels are iconic in the broad minds of children’s terra scapes but with a bit of tech prowess, adults can enjoy them too. The Solar light is a project aimed at bringing attention to the wonders of wind power and to the current degenerate state of unsustainable energy. Acrylic blades catch the wind and a small generator LED tube lights.

Designer: Eon Tae Yoon

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‘wind to light’ is a project commissioned by onedotzero and light lab for architecture week onedotzero 2007 in the uk, executed by jason bruges studio. the events for this years architectural celebration, organised by the arts council england, riba and the architecture centre network, were focused upon issues of ecology and sustainability posing the reflective question ‘how green is our space?’. its aim was to inspire people to think creatively about the spaces that surround them and which they inhabit.

jason bruges studio produces a wide range of diverse work including interactive light sculptures, interactive environments, events and screen based installations. their objective is to explore the applications of interactivity and the relationship between individuals and their environment through the creative use of highly imaginative and innovative technologies.

‘wind to light’ is a custom built, site-specific installation consisting of 500 miniature wind turbines directly generating the power to illuminate hundreds of integrally mounted LEDs (light-emitting diodes).  the effect is to create ‘firefly-like fields of light’ where the wind can be visualized as an ephemeral electronic cloud in the atmosphere. the turbine and LED modules are attached to their base by flexible poles which allow them to slightly sway in the wind, animating the movement of the wind by a digital, electronic means.

the self-powered, autonomous installation illustrates the simplicity and directness of wind power and its potential, literally and symbolically closing the gap between power generation and consumption. wind to light presents wind power in a visually tangible way and one that is characterised primarily by its resultant output rather than process. it eloquently illustrates the silent power of wind.

wind to light presents the perspective that wind power can be an attractive or even potentially beautiful addition to the landscape, contrary to many widespread opinions that wind turbines are a man-made, visual and physical intrusion upon scenery and its natural beauty.

the relocation of wind power from the rural environment to urban surroundings literally brings it closer to us and suggests that as our requirements from wind power have evolved since the use of windmills so should our attitudes towards its application and location. perhaps wind turbines are more suited within the man made environment than nature where they are alien and their need is divorced from them.

http://www.jasonbruges.com 

http://onedotzero.com/windtolight

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