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The Brimingham Blade
The Birmingham Blade is the world’s first geographically tailored urban wind turbine designed by AI. Using an evolutionary optimisation process, our software generated and tested over 2,000 blade geometries against Birmingham’s low, turbulent rooftop winds, identifying a vertical axis design with curved blades that is predicted to be up to seven times more efficient than conventional small turbines in the same conditions. This demonstrates that AI driven design can turn previously uneconomic urban wind resources into viable, decentralised clean power.
The Birmingham Blade is intended as a rooftop and near building wind turbine for commercial, industrial and public sector sites in low wind urban environments. It provides on site renewable electricity that can be integrated with solar PV and battery storage to cut grid consumption, reduce energy costs and lower emissions. The prototype also serves as a reference design that can be rapidly re optimised for other cities, showing how AI driven design can unlock viable urban wind projects at scale.
