Almost every big city in the world has a radio tower. Eiffel (Paris), Berlin TV Tower (Berlin), Danube Tower (Vienna), Tokyo Tower (Tokyo), Oriental Pearl TV Tower (Shanghai) and The Space Needle (Seattle). Most of these towers have a rotating restaurant on their upper floor and their top level serve as RF transmitter antenna.
I would like to add a middle level between the restaurant floor and the transmitter level, “The Vertical Wind Turbine Level”.
Building a tall tower is not cheap and such transmitter towers consume very high electricity. Addition of a vertical wind turbine would very well lower the operational cost of the tower. It would also contribute to the silhouette (road to electronic tower toys that have a spinning top). The magnetic field generated by the turbine can be shielded for the transmitter section. The rotating restaurant would only rotate when the wind turbine is running and generate electricity. The transmitter on the other hand would have a back-up supply. Generating and consuming electric within the tower would lower the transmission losses as well.
Space Needle of Seattle is the most beautiful tower after the iconic Eiffel. That’s the reason I chose it for my mockup work.
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