I thought Burj Khalifa was the best wonder of today's world. But what's the point in having a tallest building. For the sake of fame? That's it nothing else. But cannot be underrated at any circumstance because it shows that man can do "Wonders" with what he has been given with. I today came across this interesting thing. It has been for a long time but I took a look only today. If you people know that then you need not read this post. For those who do not know. I'll tell you everything about it. This building is a World Trade Center. We have got a lot of World Trade Centers but this one is in Bahrain. This is not just a building but this has been engineered with Green Technology.
Bahrain World Trade Center: The height of the building is around 240m. These are twin towers. The towers were built in 2008 by the multi-national architectural firm Atkins. It got the best use of technology award. Wondering what the technology is?? Very simple indeed. The twin towers are connected via three sky bridges, each incorporated with a 225KW wind turbine as you can see in the pic below. Totally supplying 675KW of energy to the building. The twin towers have been designed in such a way that it looks like that of a sail of a ship and any air entering from the Persian gulf at 45 degrees to the north, on either side of the central axis will create a wind stream that remains perpendicular to the turbine blades. The sail like twin towers make the wind come into the space between them. The novel idea is that the engineers have made use of the building as a source to generate more electricity. The three turbines generate electricity that can power nearly 300 homes annually, nearly equal to 1.1 to 1.3 Gwh. It provides the wind power for 11% to 15% of the building's power consumption.
Bahrain World Trade Center!! Green Technology well understood!!
I guess if we can think in such a way that we can integrate two or more engineering field's concepts together then we can come out with a substantial and an innovative idea. The only thing to worry is who's gonna come together to share such things. One keeps on concentrating in his or her own field that they seldom get time to get open to others' ideas. This is going to be the future. Thinking in this manner is gonna do a great deal for the world in the mere future. Sustainability is going to take centre stage. Conflict between technology and environment is arising and it is better to make them friends at the earliest. Let's think. Let's make it a better planet to live in.
-SATZ
This is cool dude. Even i came across one cute innovation which we can use in our evry day lives. ther's a new technology called solar tint. Unlike ordinary tints this helps is utilising solar power an also provides the actual tint to windows. Green technology doesn lye in innovatin alone, people need to use it. Oly then its an actual sustainability.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Sure. Only when people start using it its gonna do good. There are a lot like the Maglev Wind Turbine, Floating city concept etc. tried by people. They are trying to construct buildings with some Green technology in it.
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