Wind spire

This is a video of a new design of windmill I found on YouTube. Its pretty sweet, interesting noone has tried to alter the traditional windmill until now. It would be really interesting to see a working model or even just a concept of this design being used in tidal power.


I'm really interested in renewable energy just now, no doubt there will be many more posts on this subject.

Lanstrom Tidal Turbine - experimental tidal power scheme in Scotland

Seen this on the news tonight and thought it was pretty cool. It's an underwater turbine incase you hadn't already guessed.

Scottish Power are drawing up plans to send to the Scottish Government and Northern Irish Assembly, with hope that there will be underwater turbine farms active by 2011. Pentland Firth, the Sound of Islay and the North Antrim Coast have been identified as the most suitable locations for the turbines.
ScottishPower are hoping Underwater Turbineswill contribute to 50% of the UK's Power by 2020.