Tower of power lights up London

November 16, 2008

Artists are lighting up London’s South Bank with 1200 wind-powered lights as part of a digital arts festival.

The Aeolian tower - which means moved by the wind - is a 15m steel structure located next to Waterloo Bridge.

The tower is covered with hundreds of tiny wind-powered LEDs. Each one made of a plastic turbine, controlling circuits and three red LEDs.

The designers aim to show how renewable energy can be used to power sustainable art and design.

As wind blows over the tower, swirling patterns of light reveal the strength and direction of the breeze.

The Aeolian Tower stands next to Waterloo Bridge.
(Alastair Fyfe)

"We want to visualize the invisible, making people realize that there’s a lot of energy out there that we’re not using," said Zena Bruges from Jason Bruges Studio, which designed the tower.

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