Kootenay Lake.. ahhh a favorite of mine. Do you know of Richard and the crew at Johnson's Landing Retreat Centre? They probably would be interested in this...
@snidelywhiplash Seems like such a simple question, but it's not. Energy produced by a turbine is relative to the wind speed, turbulence, and turbine size. This turbine is 1m did and 2.25 m high. At around 40km hr with perfectly clean wind (low turbulence) it recovers between 20 and 30% of the wind energy passing through it. That's around 300-500W. A good conventional turbine of this size might be able to capture 20%, according to Paul Gipe a world leader in turbine testing.
Conventional turbines are most commonly destroyed by the gyroscopic precessional forces that occur during change of wind direction, or turbulence. These forces can and often do push the blades into the tower, or destroy the 2 sets of bearings in conventional turbine. VAWT Turbines do not have that failure mode, change of wind direction doesn't damage them. So this turbine is not just more efficient, it's likely to last much longer, and be able to be installed in many more locations.
Kootenay Lake.. ahhh a favorite of mine. Do you know of Richard and the crew at Johnson's Landing Retreat Centre? They probably would be interested in this...
KyleCarrington 1 month ago
Beautifully designed. How much power can the turbine in the video produce?
snidelywhiplash 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@snidelywhiplash Seems like such a simple question, but it's not. Energy produced by a turbine is relative to the wind speed, turbulence, and turbine size. This turbine is 1m did and 2.25 m high. At around 40km hr with perfectly clean wind (low turbulence) it recovers between 20 and 30% of the wind energy passing through it. That's around 300-500W. A good conventional turbine of this size might be able to capture 20%, according to Paul Gipe a world leader in turbine testing.
drewartturbine 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Conventional turbines are most commonly destroyed by the gyroscopic precessional forces that occur during change of wind direction, or turbulence. These forces can and often do push the blades into the tower, or destroy the 2 sets of bearings in conventional turbine. VAWT Turbines do not have that failure mode, change of wind direction doesn't damage them. So this turbine is not just more efficient, it's likely to last much longer, and be able to be installed in many more locations.
drewartturbine 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Beauty and performance?
JaxxBat 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos