How often have you seen a turbine blade being delivered on a truck and thought it would make for one hell of a slide? Well the designers at 2012Architecten clearly had the same idea as they used five discarded turbine blades to construct the Wikado playground at the Kinderparadijs Meidoorn facility.
The blades were all hacked up to create an assortment of different playground structures including climbing towers, caves, play surfaces, slides, and even supports for a jungle gym net. If only they’d found a way to keep the power generating parts intact and functional so the playground could also harness the seemingly unlimited energy of kids playing. [2012Architecten via Inhabitat]
The only good use for them.
That, and you know, renewable energy...
Hardly,
Total contribution to the worlds power supplies made by wind turbines = less than 1%.
They are a monumental waste of money and a blight on the landscape.
Cause current major energy sources will last forever and have no flaws at all!
We'd have more investment in renewables if it wasn't for moronic opinions like yours. We're completely screwing over our planet but hey nature can just deal with it!
It's a great recycling plan but I don't know how kid friendly it is. There are some pretty extreme exposed bolts in the 3rd photo from the top just waiting to pounce
That's true, but we had way worse than that when we were kinds. :)
"kids" -_-
And how about the sharp trailing edge in photo #1 - try running into that!
As someone who ran into a carbon fibre trailing edge once: ouch.