Another system fom Richard Architecture

Nice looking system from Richard Moreta. Lovely design but at the high end cost wise ( nothing wrong with expensive in principle if you can get the money ). I like the up and down tubes - although Richard doesn't explain anything (shame) I suspect that this is about permitting a back draft system ( push air down the tubes in keep the wind to the cyclists back raising overall speeds). I if you look on the website you can see the stations have what look like flat escalators ( good idea) all driven my small wind turbines (cute).  Dates back to 2002 which isn't bad for such a cool looking system.


Intreasting to imagine that the helicopter in the image is likely to use up more energy than the whole system from people will in its life time( but not the savings in CO2 from cars which will be considerable ).