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Under F.L. Smidth’s ownership, Dæmpa’s engineer and
inventor Jean Fischer was able to realise new possibilities,
his talents being used to carry out a number of innovative
research initiatives. In the early-1970s, he developed a wind
turbine project, a test example of which was built in 1974 at
Hjallese. Comprising six Darrieus rotors attached to a
130-metre-high concrete tower, it attracted widespread
attention and was even illustrated on the cover of the July
1975 edition of the American journal Science, which contained an article about Energy and Resources by Bent
Sørensen of the Niels Bohr Institute.
In the second half of the 1970s, Fischer designed a ‘Plus-Energy’ house in Tommerup, which featured a wind turbine
and a solar collector system that also could charge the battery of a two-seat electric car for local driving. Fischer even
wrote a book about the house, which was published in
1982. Both the windmill and the house were ahead of their
time, but would prove very prescient as environmental and
sustainability concerns moved from the fringes of the political agenda to its heart in the decades after the millennium.
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