Louver assembly for a cooling tower

A blade array comprising:

• a plurality of blades, a plurality of spacers, a plurality of rods, each of the plurality of blades having a longitudinal axis LB, an inner blade edge, an outer blade edge, the inner blade edge and the outer blade edge being parallel to the longitudinal axis LB, each of the plurality of rods having first and second rod ends and a first fastener located at the first rod end a second fastener located at the second rod end;
• wherein each of the plurality of blades and the plurality of spacers has at least one rod aperture and one of the plurality of rods extends through each of the at least one rod aperture;
• wherein each of the plurality of blades is spaced apart from an adjacent one of the plurality of blades by at least two spacers of the plurality of spacers, thereby defining an air channel, each air channel having an upper blade of the plurality of blades and a lower blade of the plurality of blades;
• and
• wherein a shape and spacing of each of the plurality of blades is adapted so that, for each air channel, a line extending from the inner edge of the upper blade to the outer edge of the lower blade intersects a portion of the lower blade.