Wind electrifies art

摘要

Two undergraduates at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture recently claimed top honors in a competition to aesthetically combine land art and electrical generation. James Murray and Shota Vashakmadze's design, called Scene-Sensor, would rise 90 feet over New York's Freshkills Park and annually produce an estimated 5,500 MWh. The students say two mounds in the park with a creek between them, channel strong wind flows. The 720-ft long Scene-Sensor would intersect the flow and produce a shimmering spectacle that captures its energy with a metallic mesh containing piezoelectric wires. Visitors could also generate electricity by walking on a nearby bridge, activating ground piezoelectrics.