O-Wind Turbine

An omnidirectional wind turbine that works in the middle of big cities and could “take urban energy harvesting to another level“ has won the UK 2018 James Dyson Award for best new invention. Designed by Lancaster University students Nicolas Orellana and Yaseen Noorani, the O-Wind Turbine is made for high-density urban environments instead of the open fields where turbines are typically placed. This is because the architecture of tall buildings throws wind flow into chaos, making conventional turbines, whi