OK....for a school project I wanted to theoretically create an indoor artificial beach, capabale of creating a nice cross-shore wind of about 15 mph.....perfect for year-round lessons. The question i pose to anyone reading this is: If finance were not a problem, is it even possible? If so, how big of a building would i need and where else could i go to get more info on creating such a building?

All help is much appreciated

Dude- anything is theoretically possible. They already have indoor windsurfing, I imagine indoor kite-surfing would be similar but on a much grander scale.
Check out this site: www.ukwindsurfing.com/pics_n_vids/2004/indoor_vids.asp

The Japanese have created the largest indoor beach with a wave machine capable or recreating any surf you can get on the open sea and actually improving it by giving perfect breakers.
Trying to find it on google....

Im not so sure you would even have to have a beach type atmosphere. For learning, smooth water would be the best, and you should get just a bit of chop from the wind machine. Here are my thoughts. You would have to have a ceiling really high, and the wind at all parts of the building. Im thinking it would have to be something like a football stadium size without the bleachers. It may have to be higher as well. You would need the top high enough for the kite to fly, plus some for the guys that get stupid air. It would be bad to be 30-40 ft up in the air and get your kite snagged on something in the ceiling. For the wind system I envision a couple of things. Both would take huge amounts of plumbing. One would be huge stacks of fans built into a wall on one side. They would be the type you see on movies, 20 to 30 foot in diameter. Then you would plumb the wall behind them all the way across the ceiling to get their intake from the opposite walls. This is theory one. Second, You could have a couple of the turbines like they use in wind tunnels mounted on top of the building, and have the intake on one side of the building and the exhaust on the other. You wouldnt need as many, because they run at high velocity. You would have to have a distribution system on the end to turn a 10 foot pipe of 100 mph wind into a 150 x 200 foot wall of vents at 10-15 mph (just guessing the numbers, but you get the idea) Anyway, just some thoughts on the project. You would have to have a huge amount of space, as well as some serious cash to even think of something like this.

Scoop