Building-mounted wind turbines (BUWTs) must overcome some fundamental issues that are less binding for other micro-generation technologies, such as mounting method, vibration transmission to building, noise effect, flicker affecting neighbouring houses, shadows and reflections, maintenance access to the turbine, electromagnetic and/or electrical interferences, driver distraction, and so on.
On the other side of a four-lane boulevard, facing out towards the sea, a mosque loomed; its two spindly minarets, much taller than the base that supported them, threw long sideways shadows across neighbouring buildings, themselves a nondescript mixture of concrete and glass, or rotting wood facades.
In Washington, where the conflict arises not from luxury skyscrapers but modest apartments and row-house pop-ups, the zoning commission voted in April on rules that would prohibit new shadows cast on neighbouring solar panels.
This week, Foster revealed that he is planning to consolidate his presence there by building his own office on a site neighbouring the Ai Weiwei-designed Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
It's a city that feels, at once, intimidatingly grand and comfortingly communal, where small towns find themselves neighbouring seas of desert and the looming shadows of mountainous teeth.
As a destination, it has always lain in the shadow of Bali, its more famous neighbouring island 40km across the Lombok Strait.
The 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team has cast a long shadow over cricket in Pakistan where, as in neighbouring India, the sport is a national obsession.
And it should help neighbouring countries, whether democratic Balts or stumbling Ukrainians, to step out of the shadow of a menacing bear.All of this would be evidence that the West was still ready to support the things it believes in.
So are neighbouring countries.
Mexicans just outweigh neighbouring Americans.
