I conceived the Opal Lands Waterway while opal mining in dry outback Australia in the 1970s. In the 1990s I saw a GE Wind Turbine Exhibition at Wick Lodge, Jaywick, Essex; I started to design wind turbines for urban areas and finished up by applying for a Wind Turbine Housing patent. Briefly, a building has three arms containing people, products and all other manner of things; the three arms serve as wind deflectors to amplify the wind force at the centre of the building. One or more Vertical Axis Wind
Turbines are used to generate electricity; large doors are closed in very high winds.
The concept is to make the building attractive so that electricity is produced on site to supersede high voltage power lines. When surplus electricity is produced it is put into the Grid and also used to pump water to top floor tanks for hydro electricity. As the water is moved about, it operates water features. The building may be 3 to 10 stories high.
Author John Robertson email:: robertsonj32@tiscali.co.uk

