Portland Roots

Here is a brilliant idea from a French design group that uses existing electrical towers in order to generate, well, more power.  The large metal electrical towers that you see running up every hillside and down every highway can be useful for more than just carrying electricity, they can now generate it too.  In an ideal situation with some good wind speed, a turbine set inside one of those large electrical towers could generate enough power for 20 average homes.  For France, that ends up being about 5% of their total electricity demand.  The electrical towers have to be there anyway, so we might as well get multiple uses out of them and harness some of that free, renewable, clean electricity.  Jump over to Inhabitat for more information.