Imagine for a moment a way to generate electricity from the sun and wind simultaneously. Then imagine that you can scale the project to any size application, both residential and commercial. You can do all of these things with the Bluenergy Solarwind Turbine. It is beautiful and useful. I would definitely be proud to add this to my landscape.

From the website:

A series of breakthrough inventions by Bernd Melchior, founder of Bluenergy AG, has led to the development and successful testing of the world’s first self-contained hybrid system. Solar cells coated with his fluoropolymer (Teflon-like) process capture sunlight from any angle and can be affixed to curved surfaces, making it possible to completely cover, with productive solar cells, the turbine’s curved wind vanes and the dome-shaped base enclosing its generator and inverter.

Melchior’s naturalistic double-helix, vertical axis turbine design generates electricity in breezes as low as 4 mph and is designed to produce power in winds up to 90 mph.

You can watch a very nice video on the whole system here or visit the site here.

Source: Bluenergy