The above video is of the Windscraper, a skyscraper/wind turbine combo that will begin construction in Dubai in 6 months. The building has a static core that each floor can rotate freely around, producing enough electricity that if every floor is rotating, the building will provide ten times more power than it requires. Those are some serious numbers. I cannot imagine that working in such a tower will be good for anyone’s health, but who knows, we’ll have to hear the first had accounts when it opens for business. I support the intention, I am extremely hesitant on the execution. See the pic below for a close up on the wind vanes between each floor that capture the wind to turn them around. Why couldn’t he build it so that these between floor vanes spin but the rest of the building stays static?  To me that would seem to be a far less [potentially] nauseating design..

Via ecogeek, the Giz and Futurismic.