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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Trees
carry
artsy
wind
turbines
O
ne of the most common
complaints against wind
turbines is not the difficulty
of use, usually it’s that the
wind turbines are quite
dull-looking. Most wind turbines
look so completely out of place in
the landscape they are placed on,
that they become eyesores.

However, that is set to
change if Jérôme Michaud-Larivière
would have his way.

Jérôme Michaud-Larivière
is the man behind New Wind, a
startup venture based in Paris. He
has created the Tree Wind, a wind
turbine that is shaped like a tree.
This is certainly a more aesthetical-
ly pleasing take on wind turbines.
At the same time, the wind tree
remains completely silent while the
‘leaves’ move in the wind.

According to Mi-
chaud-Larivière, the leaves of these
trees act as miniature versions of
wind turbines. He hit upon this idea
when he noticed tree leaves moving
even if there was almost no wind.
He wondered about the wattage that
could be produced by the leaves.
Photo Source: Energosovet
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