Just imagine being a wind-powered home? Strange enough for us, but not for the residents of Mar del Plata in Argentina that will have its first wind-powered building, run entirely on wind power, without a slight use of thermal energy. What a great advancement, especially keeping in mind the current atmospheric profile of the earth, which is full of greenhouse gases emitted by coal and thermal resources.
Not only will the building run on wind energy but also save it for future use, for days without wind. A building zooming with ventilation and windmill over its head is the brainchild of two young entrepreneurs and designed by Mariani-Perez Maraviglia. The inhabitants of the wind-powered building will be able to save 15% of the expenses that they earlier used to incur on thermal energy. This way helping themselves save their hard-earned money and also doing a grand favor to the environment, which is sulking under the strain of global warming.
This is a real example of sustainable development, which is very much the need of the day these days, especially under stress from global warming in which we as individuals have also played our part.
Being a grand experiment with technology and environment, the Mar del Plata example could be followed only at places receiving abundant wind power and sunshine. For the rest, the example is futile. However, keeping in mind the surging temperatures owing to the consumption of electricity, run on thermal energy in turn producing tons of pollutants into the atmosphere, the Mar del Plata is a first step toward use of renewable natural resources like wind, sun, tides, and water. Not the least, if the experiment is a success, the countries abundant in nature’s bounty must resort to such environment-friendly steps to save environment at the earliest.
Source: Freshome
