Wind Dam

Wind Dam [via Pruned]

From Building Design: The dam, which would be located over a gorge at Lake [Ladoga] in north-west Russia, includes a cup-shaped spinnaker sail, believed to be the first of its kind, which will generate renewable energy by funnelling the wind through an attached turbine.

Click the first link to read Pruned's wonderfully imaginative extrapolations, including new kinds of prayer flags and sonic landscapes.