Inspiring Green Wonders

Bahrain World Trade Center 

Apart from the Architecture, the most impressive feature of this Center is the three massive wind turbines situated between the two towers comprising the main building. Each of these 80-foot turbines projects from a bridge between towers. The shape of the towers themselves channels and accelerates air moving between them which will help the building generate even more power.

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It is by far the largest wind-powered design incorporated into a massive building project till date.

Solar Tower, Seville

Well, it is Europe’s first commercial power station to harness the energy of the sun. How does it work? The sun’s rays are all directed at a single point of the tower and turn water at that point into steam.

The steam in turn moves through turbines and generates energy. A strange but very functional process. 

 

Image Source : http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/is-the-sun-setting-on-solar-power-in-spain_1.jpg 
 

  Lighthouse skyscraper ,Dubai

The Lighthouse skyscraper  is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt wind turbines (29 meters in diameter), and 4000 photovoltaic panels on the south facing façade. To optimize performance and operational periods, the turbines have windward directional wind vanes or limited yaw. 

 

 

Image source: http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/5/24/lighthouse2.jpg