Environmental Activist A. Dick Nowakowski to Build World’s Largest Lego Windmill in Support of Alternative Energy Technologies

Canadian environmentalist and peace protestor A. Dick Nowakowski will be in Ulvestone Caravan Park, Ulverstone, Tasmania between December 28, 2005 and January 18, 2006 where he has rented a caravan plot on which he will construct the world’s largest windmill made entirely out of Lego. Over the past two years Nowakowski’s assistants have made 27 trips into Tasmania with suitcases full of Lego for the project. By mid-December 2005, Nowakowski will have 811,000 Lego bricks in place on his caravan plot.

When completed, the Lego windmill will stand 108 feet high and 43 feet wide, with rotors measuring 82 feet in diameter, dwarfing the world’s second largest Lego windmill, a 14-foot structure in a suburban Maryland backyard. Although it will not function as an energy-producing windmill, the structure will be visible to ships six kilometres off shore, serving as a stark reminder that fossil fuels will run out one day, and that nuclear energy creates mutant fish. It will also feature 4 bathrooms, two kitchens, a four car garage, a video arcade and an indoor pool and will serve as a summer home to Nowakowski until he returns to Canada in mid-May.

Nowakowski has hired fourteen local street urchins to guard the windmill in 8-hour shifts during and after construction.