[BNM] massive tower

[Shaun Morrison]

On 1 Feb 2008, at 01/02/2008 | 10:45, Alex Farran wrote:
>>
>> Good point. It would be feasible to generate power on the descent  
>> wouldn't
>> it. In the same way a hybrid car generates power when it brakes.
>
> I imagine there's a counterweight somewhere, so you'll mostly be
> converting potential to kinetic energy and back again.  Most of the
> energy will be spent on acceleration, deceleration and friction.

 From the official site http://tinyurl.com/ykhdrz :

"It’s been designed to be low energy use and energy efficient – 20 per  
cent of the energy required to drive it will come from wind-turbines  
at its top"

The picture in The Architects page is funny http://tinyurl.com/3yjtpu  
- a small boy is going to build this tower then? Also, he may be  
precocious, but he doesn't a sense of health and safety in his designs  
- one false move and he'd fall and die.

A pretty poor site overall (sorry if any of you guys did it). Not  
criticising the designer, but more money should definitely have been  
spent on it.

Shaun

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