Roof Top Demo: 10kW Magnetically Levitated VAWT

[Sanosuke004]

My brother's company recently completed one of these wind turbines for a client on a urban farm ranch. Makes power for the house so they don't have to pay so much money to the power company.



[komaki119]

i bet its noisy

[spritsengiggle]

Pure genius. 

[unholyimage]

I'd like to know what kind of anchoring structure is necessary and what is the max rated wind for this thing.

[asedcopf]

..and of course 100% efficient is a joke, isnt it round 40% with good quality stuff?

[ydnab9]

how does it not get blown off the bearing and how much energy does it take to power the magnets?

[nifur1]

Ha,ha,ha....

[luc59457]

nice

[ProphecyChanger]

How often do you polish it :-)

[plasticmanbob]

YEAH 10 kw if the wind was 50 knots!!!

[Ebdan88]

This is a beautifull Idea.....Much much better then thoes big very costly sheet... GOOD WORK MAN.............

[IronHorsez88]

it might put out a little power..... tiger woods needs one.

[Stepanfo1]

This is cheating! This thing can make 10 kW at 25 mps wind, that is a storm! At 5 mps wind, it makes 100W. Yes, one hundred watts.

[TogieTung]

How much does this thing cost? I think every building must have a maglev VAWT to offset our dependency towards fossil fuel powered power plants.

[alamamierda]

they mean 10k(Joules per century)....i think thats the new 'Watts' they use in small wind!

[vikramvaranasi]

wait a minute, if its magnetically levitated what drives the turbine?

[abeerbeer1]

we can only harness 59.8% (MAX) of available energy in wind...

[savepenguintrees]

If that has an area of 4 square metres, and it is 100% efficient, it will require winds of 57kM per hour to generate 10kWatts

[sjh7132]

That thing is big. I wonder what kind of stresses it adds to the roof in a high wind?

[werkloosdoorcrisis]

Sorry for my ignorance, I'm new to this stuff. Are there also radial magnitec bearings? I can only find the axial ones so far.

[ollieoniel]

how high does it have to be to get 10 killowatts

[etiennealive]

This is the best concept for vawts posted on Youtube. Good work !!! I guess with magnetic levitation there's no waring out of lagers, becouse there are none ?

[magnetmannenbannanen]

im amased at this, its 10 Kw, in a three meter tall construction, wich to top it off, is almost silent compared to the vertical pivot type windmills beeing built all over the world. if it had a lower priced one at say 2.5 kw i would be wery interested.

[rustknight1]

i cant believe you put it on your roof !! i mean, obviously it wouldnt work in the garage, but its BIG ASS turbine.

[variablestatus]

really, really cool stuff. i love the magnetic levitation for a frictionless bearing. super efficient. i use magnetic levitation in my magnetic pulse motors. thanks for the time to post video...