Windfarm

2008-2012

 

(digital film & design engineering)

 

Proposal for a floating wind farm

budget £160 billion.

 

This is a solution for a stable floating wind farm. At the time there were no floating wind turbines, and offshore wind farms had to be placed where the sea was shallow enough to fix turbines to the sea bed. This wind farm proposes an array of floating rigs which are spanned by long bridges of turbines (800m to 1km long). Even in the roughest seas, the wind farm would calmly rise and fall like a floating carpet of chain-mail.

The wind farm could be placed far out of sight of the public, beyond the horizon. Half way between Scotland and Iceland would be a good location for power as well as perhaps developing perches & habitats for wildlife.

A wind farm the size of the Isle of Wight, with 1200 turbines would produce enough electricity for whole of the UK.

 

How , you might ask, could this project be Art? This is a piece of Art Activism. As we head towards extinction it is frustrating trying to get governments, industry, the public to act and to actually find solutions to Climate Change. If I were to propose this and try to get it made, it would take a lifetime of lobbying government, building companies, persuading investors, and waiting for the "right time" for inertia to be reached, so we can actually bring about change.

As an Artist, rather than changing career, I present these ideas to get the idea out there under "Creative Commons" so that it will feed into the culture so that those with more agency can pick up the baton.

 

Since 2012 I have been working on a better version of the wind farm.