Sky Mills
Taking a cue from the Dutch history of the Old Stone House, this project erects a series of fantastic temporary new-style old-style virtual windmills that make wind power desirable for the Washington Park area. To complement and distract residents who might be opposed to windmills, a virtual skywriter plane will be driven by power from the Mills to draw pictures and messages in the sky submitted by members of the community visiting the Old Stone House. The windmills and especially the propellers will be painted in optical colors such that watching them will have a have a hypnotic calming effect. All of this is be visible through mobile smart phones and iPads via a commonly available "augmented reality" application.
The windmills can be used for all kinds of different energy transformation; wind into electricity, corn into biofuel, wind hydrogen battery charging, general battery charging and garbage to methane. The windmills hope to aid the detachment from the larger corporate city energy supply that has become unaffordable. Some of the windmill heads will be rotatable to vertical positions to obtain the very concentrated energy of passing tornadoes and severe macrobursts that increasingly appear during Brooklyn summers.
This project is part of bUD, Bureau of Urban Devolution, which supports areas of metropolitan districts which entertain general questions about the forward movement of culture. Its projects assist citizens encouraged to go back to more positive primitive forms of living, simple technologies and rural ways of life. |
