Solar Powered Flowers

Here are a few solar powered flowers that I've been working on with my business partner (he's the engineer). The flowers charge up a battery at night using inlaid photovoltaic cells and release this charge at night by illuminating themselves with internal LED's. We've got a web site and a facebook page now as well :
http://www.greensculptureltd.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/greensculptureltd?ref_type=bookmark

Post No.2 - Sculptural wind turbine ideas

A while ago I created a tiny sculptural wind turbine out of clay and other odds and sods that I found lurking in my garage. The turbine blades and dynamo are made out of an electrical fan ripped out of an old computer, it generates a minuscule amount of electricity but was a fun to build. the sculpture was inspired by a sculpture that I saw at Glastonbury festival (middle picture)

I'm also keen to make a similar sort of turbine but have a seahorse as the sculptural bit instead. 

Here's my first attempt at a clay seahorse...  

My first Post!

Hello and welcome to my Blog!
My name is Peter Andrew and I am trying to create sculptures that generate green sustainable electricity!
I find that one of the biggest argument against renewable energy systems (e.g. wind turbines, photovoltaics, solar water heaters etc.) often seems to be their appearance. Living in Devon I have seen plenty of opposition for wind turbines as well as for other renewable energy generation systems (such as water turbines). These projects that are essentially for the common good seem to be able to spark huge waves of NIMBYism simply by being proposed! I am of the opinion that if these generators can be made beautiful in some way there would be far lest opposition to their construction (and you'd end up with something nice to look at!).

I'm currently in the process of constructing sculptures that incorporate a dynamo of some kind, eventually I'd like to be able to make and sell these creations as a full time job (or that's the dream anyway).

Here's a picture of a mermaid lamp that I'm currently working on to give you some idea of the kind of work that I try and produce.