Found an old outdoor movie theater out in the countryside near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It looked very much like the way I imagined some of the wind dams I have described on this blog, so I stopped and took some pictures of it. I was very excited to see that the structure that supports the corrugated screen doesn’t seem to use very much metal! Keep in mind that this is in a high-wind area, and the screen has obviously been withstanding wind storms for many years. Also keep in mind that, unlike most of the designs described on this blog, the theater screen has no way to allow wind to pass through its surface unimpeded. So if the wind machine has a means for allowing high winds to pass through its flow manipulating surfaces unimpeded, it will require even less metal for its structural support!
The owner was working at the site when I drove up, and he told me the screen was 65 feet high. (I don’t remember how wide he said it was.)
