I attended the lecture by
Marks Barfield Architects, The
Quietrevolution, and
Price & Myers at the building centre about the Beacon which is part of the Sustainable London, Power in the City lecture.
It was an impressive presentation and the duo
Julia Barfield, joint Managing Director of Marks Barfield Architects, and
Robert Webb, CEO of Quietrevolution were bombarded with a lot of interesting questions by the full house audience, which I think were answered satisfactorily.
The
quietrevolution website says "...The Beacon is a 40 metre high Y-shaped structure, and is designed to be ‘planted’ along major roads and public spaces, reaching up to the stronger breezes above London’s buildings. Each Beacon supports five vertical
'triple-helix’ wind turbines called quietrevolution, each five metres high and three metres diameter designed to achieve ultra-quiet operation and more efficient utilisation of urban winds.
‘Most wind turbines are being planned in remote locations without any existing infrastructure. This isn’t efficient as 30 percent to 50 percent of energy gets lost
through transmission. We believe cities like London should take much greater responsibility for their own energy generation. London has a unique opportunity to make a difference in time for the Olympics’ said David Marks and Julia Barfield, co-designers of the Beacon.
Their partner in the project, Robert Webb, CEO of XCO2 and co-designer of The Beacon adds;
‘Within fifty years we will be living in a world which is 90 percent powered by renewable energy", with no sacrifice to quality of life. The Beacon is a showcase and a celebration of this revolution and is designed to bring the debate on wind generation directly into the cities..."
Link to Sustainable London PDF presentation.
Photo courtesy of
Quietrevolution
