Craziest green bling design

[saveasteading]

I have started a new thread rather than hijack one.

 

This was my proposal for the most misguided design, claiming (shouting out look at us) to be sustainable.

 

I have seen it perhaps 20 times without the rotors ever moving.

I read that if they all did rotate at optimum speed, then it could power 2 or 3 kettles in the flats below.

What would that have cost? Allowing for the fancy shapes, the loss of floor space, plus the kit itself, can I guess £30M at current costs? I am not going to analyse it but have considered the absence of snow load as a positive.

Of course it is crazy and somebody paid for it.

It probably got through planning by ticking the windmill box. At a similar time the London boroughs were insisting on alternative energy, so at least one new blocks was built with, and proudly boasted of,  pellet boilers. These required 2 lorry loads per day in Central London.  Never used of course and the 'backup' gas kicked in.

 

@SteamyTea suggests that a green roof would have been crazier. I have little time for them either, but don't think it us in the same league for cost or negative benefit.

A green roof would have added perhaps £2M, in direct cost plus strengthening the structure but add for annual maintenance.

But it might have had some marginal benefit if sensibly designed.

 

Any other suggestions of craziness  small or large?

[SteamyTea]

Hydrogen power.

 

[saveasteading]

15 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Hydrogen power.

..will be the next resource taken from Scotland to support England. A way of transporting wind energy to the big cities.

[SteamyTea]

57 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

A way of transporting wind energy to the big cities

Aluminium and steel cables are much more efficient, 3‰ losses instead of 60‰.

Fuel cells, fool's cells.

[markocosic]

Methanol fuel cells as midwinter peakers aren't entirely daft.

[JohnMo]

On 31/05/2023 at 15:32, saveasteading said:

will be the next resource taken from Scotland to support England. A way of transporting wind energy to the big cities.

I believe they already have plans in place to sell hydrogen to the Netherlands.

 

I have heard of plans for wind turbines and within the same footprint hydrogen making facilities, and every so often a tanker comes in and takes the hydrogen away.

[SteamyTea]

1 hour ago, JohnMo said:

have heard of plans for wind turbines and within the same footprint hydrogen making facilities, and every so often a tanker comes in and takes the hydrogen away

Then could fill the tower with gas, keep the pressure up and the towers can be made much lighter, saving steel.

 

I think think they need to sink a few nuclear subs.

Then run the generators and electrify the hull.

Get the polarity, and depth right, it will eventually float back up.

Then fill a huge balloon with hydrogen and wait till the wind is in right direction: free delivery to site 

[JohnMo]

2 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Then could fill the tower with gas, keep the pressure up and the towers can be made much lighter, saving steel.

 

I think think they need to sink a few nuclear subs.

Then run the generators and electrify the hull.

Get the polarity, and depth right, it will eventually float back up.

Then fill a huge balloon with hydrogen and wait till the wind is in right direction: free delivery to site 

Think you may have had few to many coffee's or something?

[SteamyTea]

9 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

Think you may have had few to many coffee's or something?

Long journey up country, not a lot else to think about. I always have to blank my mind when I pass @pocster country.

Imagine breaking down on that stretch of the M5. 

[saveasteading]

Banjo players in the trees?