Wind dam by Chetwood Associates

Building Design shows a power-generating “wind dam” designed by architects Chetwoods that uses a giant spinnaker sail slung between mountains to funnel wind into a turbine.

Chetwoods have submitted a proposal to suspend the first wind dam across a gorge at Lake Lagoda in north-west Russia.

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