[ExI] Wind Power Without the Blades

[Damien Broderick]

<http://news.discovery.com/tech/wind-power-without-the-blades.html>

By Alyssa Danigelis

Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even 
the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a 
breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that 
ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the 
Windstalks generate electricity when the wind sets them waving. The 
designers came up with the idea for the planned city Masdar, a 
2.3-square-mile, automobile-free area being built outside of Abu Dhabi.

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