Taking its inspiration from the way the wind sways a field of wheat the Masdar Windstalk, a concept art design for a wind Generator, may hold solutions for some of the objections that confront conventional turbines. Dario Nunez Ameni of Atelier DNA, a New York design laboratory had put on his thinking caps along with others to address the issues of noise, environment and aesthetics. Their ideas all based on proven technologies, gained them a respectable second prize in the Land Art Generator Competition.

A small team comprising an artist a structural engineer and an ecology and renewable energy specialist have come up with a design that is revolutionary in that it escapes from the principles of a rotational turbine. Yet they aim to ensure that if their concept becomes a reality their Land Art Generator will have the same electrical output as current wind-farm covering the same area.

Artist Gabrielle Jesiolowski envisioned a field of super-sized reeds that sway naturally in the breeze that can form attractive parkland. The environment can be planted with small shrubs combining the natural with the surreal. At the top of each stem is a LED which lights up when the frond is generating power making it as appealing a night as is is during the day.

Radhi Majmudar of Innovative Structural and Specialty Engineering,the project engineer had to find suitable materials and inventive ways of getting the giant grass-like structure to generate electricity while colleague
Ian Lipsky helped with his knowledge on ecology issues and renewable energy solutions.