Windmall

Does it look like a giant bookshelf to you? This is part of the entrance of a shopping mall in Nagoya, central Japan.

They are actually components in an electricity generator developed by Inaba Electric Work Co. Ltd., an Osaka-based lighting equipment and switchboards manufacturer.

The unusual-looking structure has an equally unusual name: "Surface of the wall windmill ecological curtain."

The total 775 vertical windmills, installed on four tiers along a 107-meter railing, are expected to produce 7,551 kilowatt-hours annually.

Combined with solar panels set atop the structure, the harnessed energy will be used to power lighting in the mall building.

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Cool eh? Seems like only Japan is taking the Kyoto Protocol seriously ;P