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World's First Environmentally Friendly High-Rise Building Will Have a Windmill On It
The designers want to make the first-ever high-rise building to be climate-neutral and put a windmill on top of it.
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Environmentally conscious tall buildings are on the rise (someone call the pun police!). Four Dutch companies; KCI The Engineers, Bosch Rexroth, HILLEBRAND, and NorthernLight joined their powers to create an attraction with passenger cabins as elevators powered by solar panels. The designers claim that it'll be the first high-rise building to be climate-neutral.
There will be a windmill atop the building and the solar panels will stick out at the base of its mast holding the passenger cabins.
The consortium combined their expertise on high-level engineering, steel construction, and electric motion tech to create this project.
The passenger cabins included in the building will be controlled by an intelligent control system that is going to reduce energy expenditure and maintenance needs. The cabins will also generate electricity from their potential energy as they descend, how cool is that!