Thursday, March 10, 2011

Can Beautiful Turbines Help Critics Embrace Wind Energy?


From our friends at Fast Company , "bridging the fuzzy border between design and business." NL Architects's proposal for foliage-inspired turbines challenges notions that wind farms are rank eyesores. With knock-down-drag-out fights erupting over the aesthetics of proposed wind farms from Cape Cod to Canada, it stands to reason that the turbines themselves could use a makeover. Leave it to NL Architects -- the Dutch design brains behind this ..

From our friends at Fast Company , “bridging the fuzzy border between design and business.” NL Architects’s proposal for foliage-inspired turbines challenges notions that wind farms are rank eyesores. With knock-down-drag-out fights erupting over the aesthetics of proposed wind farms from Cape Cod to Canada, it stands to reason that the turbines themselves could use a makeover. Leave it to NL Architects — the Dutch design brains behind this ..


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Can Beautiful Turbines Help Critics Embrace Wind Energy?


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