Comments on: ANARA TOWER: Dubai’s Titanic Turbine-Shaped Superstructure

By: The Desert of the Lulz « Straßgefühl

The Desert of the Lulz « Straßgefühl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:38:29 +0000

[...] should be noted that the thingee atop this 2150-foot skyscraper looks like a wind turbine but actually does nothing. It is as wholly powered by oil as everything [...]

By: trumpetmonkey

trumpetmonkey — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:28:14 +0000

That was a strange claim made by the designers, quoted from the towers website, about being inspired by the Minaret, ‘the antecedent of lighthouses and skyscrapers of today’. There were lighthouses and towers in existence long before the emergence of Islam in the 6th Century! And even so, it’s a pretty weak and unnecessary attempt at giving a hi tech tower some sort of cultural comntext.

In terms of the green credentials, I think the most energy would be saved by not building it.

By: Mixme

Mixme — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:46:59 +0000

Fanciful follies of oil-crazed emirs come at the expense of oil consumers world-wide. We pay at the pumps and they play in the sand! I would feel better if emirs and corrupt arabian governments were using our money for the betterment of mankind, finding better ways to do surgery, looking at greening their deserts, building better world governments, improving science and technology for us all. They choose fanciful adolescent gold plated cars, useless ostentatious buildings and ridiculous \\\’ski in the deserts\\\’ amusement parks over good and useful developments for all mankind. As the oil dries up, and their fortunes shrink with the devalued dollar, and we approach oil independence, they surely will suffer! There are better,more incited, long term investments that this corrupt royalty seem to be oblivious of. I hope they see the \\\”light\\\” before the oil runs out! Obama is in! The new energy plans WILL be put in motion! George Bush is OUT and Oil causes cancers we don’t need in the new Solar power world! any more than we need \\\”Towers of Babel\\\” in the deserts of Arabia!

By: ahmednewenergy

ahmednewenergy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:09:10 +0000

YOU”RE JOKING! You mean the turbine at the spire is ornamental. Can’t be! really???

Actually I was reading in pv-tech.org that investors in the Middle East are starting to put substantial money into greentech.

Also you can always go to daily cleantech/greentech new sites like

http://www.greentechmedia.com/

to learn where the best investments and innovations are merging.

By: WBrooke

WBrooke — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:16:10 +0000

A glass tower in the desert must consume an incredible amount of cooling power.

If that was a power-producing turbine, it would be a much more interesting design.