@MucusFelidae FIRST You need the right site for a wind turbine. I would love one on my house, but I have an anemometer up there and know that the wind is too light and variable due to a large hill behind the house that forces the airflow to be about 50 or 60 metres above the house.
@gill9275 Yes, by selling it to the national grid! that is a giant battery that returns power to you when the wind isn't doing anything. If you mean, can you be off-grid with wind, you need to clean up the voltage from the turbine with a regulator and charge up deep charge batteries (like caravan or domestic boat batteries), and then run either DC lighting and other fittings (as on a caravan or boat) or use an invertor to convert the battery power back to AC.
I do agree that VAWT's perform better than HAWT's in smaller applications but I'm afraid that the unit on the left is not a turbine. It's a combination anemometer/wind vane. It measures wind speed and direction. It also looks like it is down wind from the VAWT, and it is picking up turbulence, which would cause it to swivel. Cool turbine though.
@Cre8tvMG I have not heard of such Batteries. The last big move forward in Batteries was when they released the Patents for the Batteries used on the old Soviet SS20 missiles. Seems they were very High Capacity.
I invent 15 Years ago a similar System to use it as a Boat Engine. Also to run Wind Turbine Tunnels on Cliffs and Hills. Alone the Distance between Ground and Top let the Turbines working. My new Invent save Worldwide more Energy as Wind turbines can produce. Have a look here in you tube ledmission or Solarlightpanels. This is the future to rescue the World energy Problems. It is Storm proof, Waterproof, Produce Foot in Aquaculture and use for Streetlights and other Light application also.
@MrEngineerNasa Such things do exist, there is one in London, The strata tower. also the World Trade Centre in Bahrain.but they are both Horizontal Axis. I dont think i can post a URL in a Youtube reply, or i would give you a reference to some tower design ideas with Vertical axis.
Guys. The real breakthrough with wind turbines is going to come when high capacity fuel cell batteries become more affordable. With fuel cell batteries you can constantly trickle charge them with the turbines and tap into them whenever you need power. The real draw back with wind power is you can only rely it for home storage heating or heating water. Fuel cells store enough power to support refrigerators, cookers, TVs, air conditioners, anything in fact.
how many vertical wind power converters can you have on one ,1000 square roof before it disrupts the wind flow to each other deminishing output from some ?
@moecat1000 I've heard you need to space them out 10 feet apart. Anyone wanting to purchase your own wind turbine DIY kit or parts for your Sovereign independence. Don't be a slave to the electric companies. 1500 Watt all inclusive turbine kit for about $1,500. Go Soveriegn! We have everything from charge controllers to Inverters. visit Sovereign's Depot @ sovdepot.com
The demonstration is very clear and simple. Easy to understand. Yes, I agree with you that the vertical design of wind turbine is better than the horizontal one. It seem safe. You can be so sure that no one will be harmed. Aside from the fact that you save space in setting up the wind turbine in its respective area.
And of course, if you can afford a fancy converter that I'm sure will make life easier and pay for itself but even that is not absolutely needed. Grab 40 used batteries or w/e you need. Grab some electrolite fluid and fixem up good as new. And of course, if you live in appartment, I'm not talking about you lol. But you can always move to a rural area. Google Canada and checkout all the land not being used, it's insane!
So what if one only procudes 50 cents in electricty, just make 200 of them! Now that covers my $100 monthly bill. But 50 cents over a month, that's a little understimating the energy produced I think, over a whole month. Maybe the comment I read meant per day. So then that's $15 a month, and I only need 10 at most per family member at most. Anyone with a backyard can handle that I'm sure. Wire, magnets and batteries, all u need. The rest can be made with almost anything! Old sheets, hangers,w/e.
WOW! So many ridiculous comments imo. A windmill doesn't have to be perfect & doesn't have to be made with epensive materials, nor does it have to last forever! If corporations make them super cheap it would be awesome. But until then we can make them cheap from recycled materiial like an old wooden fence that stood 30 years with just a few coats of paint. Cars in junkyards? And we won't change the weather lol, all the moving trees we cut used to steal energy! Atmosphere is huge compared to us!
Hi, @environmentplease my house is carbon zero, but its thanks to a large PV roof..... the house is not passivhaus standard. I would really like a wind turbine, but i recognise it would be more decorative than functional in this location.
@helstontvx One thing I am trying is Voltage Optimization. Use a meter to check your voltage on the grid. In our street, it is 248 volts. Assuming the resistance of an appliance doesnt change, then the current flowing will be proportional to the voltage. Reducing the current will reduce the Power consumption. As all appliances in Europe are design to run satisfactorily at 220v (and are capable of running at less) You can save more than 10% of your power in this way.
while solar panels produce renewable energy they do use rare earth metals which are in limited supply and it would be difficult for everyone to deploy such solar panels wide deployment of personal wind farms in ideal locations tho would be a good idea.
@pebbles1726 Isnt Uranium a rare earth metal too? We have used up all the crude and cheap materials in the crust, such as Coal and Oil, so the ones that are left are water, wind, sun or nuclear. Sun being the most plentiful.
@dnicholsoncole Uranium is as plentiful as it comes. There is enough uranium on earth to last millions of years at current consumption levels, Uranium is everywhere in small quantities
@dnicholsoncole We're actually several hundred years away from 'using up all the crude and cheap materials' for power. Between oil, natural gas, coal and radioactive elements, we have enough for centuries even with increased usage. Not that I don't like alternative energy sources, but let's get facts straight. Most 'green 'energies cost 10 to 30x more per kilowatt, and that will produce huge negative consequences for everyone - real, not hypothetical consequences.
@Cre8tvMG That is ridiculous optimism! the world population is rising, and the standard of living is rising even faster. The consumption of energy is higher in 2010 than ever, despite all the attempts of governments to reduce energy use. Solar panels recover their cost very quickly. My 28m2 of PV panels entirely cover the heating and hot water costs of my 4 bedroom house, in their first year of operation, making it carbon zero.
@dnicholsoncole So far optimism has been met and exceeded by free markets. Compare standards of living today to 1911. All of that difference is due to the progress of industry and technology made possible by cheap energy. If we reverse the trend we will plunge the world into economic chaos. Do you think the US can stand to have energy costs 20x higher for every family, and in the creation and transportation of every product? It would make the great depression look like a booming market!
@dnicholsoncole BTW, you do know that carbon is a following indicator of global warming, not a leader? I n other words, higher carbon is a result of warming (more plants growing when the continental ice shelfs melt) and it is not a cause of warming, any more than thunder is a cause of lightening. I'd love to put an acre or two of our farm in solar panels and windmills, but the startup costs and environmental consequences are pretty steep.
@Cre8tvMG Green energy can not be called x times more expensive compared to a technology with not yet calculated costs. Since there is no calculation for the cost of storage of nuclear waste for let's say 1 million years there is no comparison. At the moment those kinds of waste have to be relocated every 20 years and I don't have any hope of improvement.
@heinrich97 If you stick the nuclear waste in a 5 mile deep mine and seal it, your cost for the next million years is about 10 dollars a year, amortized.
@Cre8tvMG That is true, but then the problem is, that a technology to seal a mine does not exist. Which leads back to my argumentation. There is no way to calculate the cost until you know what the costs of a sealed mine are. And it will not be cheap to stop geotectonics and other problems in such a big area.
It is no wonder that the first reliable mine has still to be discovered.
@heinrich97 A 1000' cement plug will seal a mine rather well. Remember we're talking about 25,000 feet of bedrock with only one way in or out. (Current deepest mine is about 10,000 feet, btw.) It's not like a surface level garbage dump that has to be sealed from rain runoff. There is no water table 5 miles down to transfer radiation - it just seeps into the rock and stays there forever. And if something ever upheaves rock 5 miles deep, we've got bigger problems than radiation.
@Cre8tvMG Well good thing you have such a mine. Where did you say was it exactly? And who is the guy that personally guarantees there will never be cracks in there for about a million years? I really wonder what his insurance company is asking him monthly for the risk of being wrong. One billion? After all there already have been some mines that were absolutely secure until they stopped being secure :) Of course the liability premium has to be part of the cost calculation as in every project.
@heinrich97 There are deep mines all over the world, some in solid bedrock. At that depth, you really don't need to worry if there IS a crack, or an earthquake - it's not going anywhere. It's miles deep! Anything that would bring it up would kill us long before it got here! And no you can't insure that, it's silly to even suggest it. It's a national government endeavor, not a private company endeavor. You may as well insure the planet against global warming.
@heinrich97 "the first reliable mine has still to be discovered" I can't even tell what you mean here. There are deep mines all over the world. Nearly all of them are reliable in the sense that if you filled the deepest tunnels with sealed containers of nuclear waste, filled those tunnels with cement, and poured thousands of feet of concrete plug, the contents aren't going anywhere, ever. Can you tell me how radiation would escape??
@Cre8tvMG I doubt that you could fill a whole mine with cement. That would be tremendously expensive. And it is pretty useless since it doesn't last for even 10000 years. A slong as everything is thight I don't understand why you would use "sealed" containers. Anyway: There will be water and it will destroy the containers within 100 years no matter how they are constructed. And cement is not waterproof. Besides they tried it here in germany and they failed. Try atommuell-endlager.de
@tirpitz19 I don't trust none of them! I think we might be better off to start fresh and limit everyone to 1 term. It's hard to imagine it being worse! I'm a fiscal conservative, a moral libertarian in the original constitutional mold, and I have voted for Republicans when I thought they were a slower expansion of insanity than the alternatives.
@tirpitz19 Ah - my use of rational arguments, logic and facts sets me apart from the emotional blather of the left, eh? Easy to stand above the froth I guess. ;-)
@pebbles1726 Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in the Earth's crust,
@pebbles1726 Solar cell use silicon which is the second most abundant element on earth surpass by only oxygen. However, silicon rarely excess in pure form. The exist in sand
@JobsJobsJobsRats It will always spin in the same direction whichever way the wind blows, because of the curvature of the blades - its like an anenometer. I am pretty convinced that the better vertical axis ones are the wider ones (unlike this). They have more turning moment on the dynamo.
@eddieconnors I would absolutely love to come to one of your courses. But its a VERy long way, and i have to look after disabled wife, so cannot go anywhere, even for more than a day. But well done for organising such great looking courses!
@caprisunn06 It goes so that the wind is pushing the concave curve of the blades, and as it turns, the convex curve is moving forward through the air.
General Electric wind turbine looks like a hoax to me. I believe a new design could work better than that turbine designed by GE engineers. A variable resistance vane would make it a continuous source of energy and more resistance would increse the amps produced when all of the vanes are turning at maximum speed.
@mankyman6 It is possible to have 'In roof' solar panels, i.e. they ARE the roof, with insulated decking under of course. i am a bit suspicious of them, firstly as they are not so easily swappable or checkable in case of problems, but they also get quite hot, and with my panels, I can hear them expanding and contracting during the day as the clouds move over the sun.
@mankyman6 you know that your sun and wind tax will be the same as an electric bill, you must be willing to accept that fact you are not a free man you are a slave. im sorry but untill you accept that their will be no independant house electricity. i have waited 27 years to purchase an electric car. i know why i cant buy one.
@d4du88 the vertical axis (VAWT) are better in turbulent wind conditions. but it takes more energy to get them swinging and they are less productive. most people prefer horizontal axis even if it requires cleaner air conditions for it to work. If I get one for my own house, it will be a HAWT.
I heard that all these windmills and Helixs use more energy to make that they would every recover in their lifetime.Also lets say that you buy a helix for your backyard and disc from your grid and that you pay $10k for it,With a $100 a month(avg electric bill) savings it would take 8 years to pay for itself.How much more life expectancy is left?If it breaks down in that 8 year period ,I'm sure that it would major expensive.Until these ppl tell us these facts,I wont be buying one.
@MrGimli2 yes it looks cool but can you guess how much energy is generated by these in one month? $0.50 worth...and it takes about $40,000 to install one of these things on building
Makes you wonder why weve been wasting our time and money on gas and oil for electricity. You know why? Big corporations that take advantage of the general populace for their own personal wealth.
I have a fully Solar electric roof, and over a WHOLE year, it does produce enough to be equivalent to our power, cooking and lighting needs. (not heating and HW). However it does this by selling to the grid, so we buy in the winter, and are selling a lot more in the summer. If more people would do it, we could hibernate some power stations in the summer months (my electricity goes directly to the neighbours).
it would be neet to be able to do this, you hear about it enough that you'd think people are stupid, NOT to do it. but is there alot of startup cost to be able to do that?
@dnicholsoncole I remember reading about a house that was built next to a stream which generated its own power throughout the year with a combination of solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power. It seems to me like diversifying power generation is the best way to go about replacing polluting energy sources.
Yes , but how much did it cost ? solarpanels are expensive + to produse them takes ALOT of power... and your solar roof would need a transformer big enough to handle so much ampere at low voltige ^^
@anton854 I have a 4 kW inverter.... the roof produces enough to give me free energy for 25 years. whats wrong with that? the embodied energy cost is paid off in about 2 yrs. How much embodied energy is in your chevvy?
i think that what your doing is good, actualy great. But my piont was that solarpanels are realy expensive and were i live ( Northern Norway) we dont have sunlight in the winter mounths at all and when we have sunlight at the summer it isnt to bright.
And wind generators are great but we cant use them at winter cuz they would freeze down. So the only energy we have is eather from russian nuclear powerplants or russian nuclear powerplants....
@anton854 When having a debate with someone in a public forum, wouldnt it be better to argue from the more general standpoint, than from a highly personal one? Or at least to reveal your context. Here I find myself discussing solar power with someone who lives north of the Arctic Circle. Where you live, the sun can do a 360º rotation in the summer, and you could have summer time panels only on a circular tracking axis - and then keep them in safe storage during winter.
@dnicholsoncole I'm nineteen, I'm trying to make a summer project to solar my parents house in two months. think it can happen? I'm an environmental design major I'm trying to get my hands dirty... i mean clean.
@Natedawg422 Realize that as much as this 'free energy' idea is great and empowering. The corporations will still be selling it to us. The Oil Companies will shift investments on whatever seems to work. We are talking about trillions of dollars. Don't think anything is free. You can help decrease your power bill, but these 'evil' corporations are not going to disappear. You will still be paying bills to someone. Cheers, my name is reality.
@walperstyle Sadly your right. Somebody could come along and try to turn a profit on wind power, but at least wind is a resource that would never run out and cant have its prices changed based on its abundance.
@Natedawg422 If we wasted tile and money is not because of the Big corporation but because of the lazyness of the people that were used to have cheap energy. Start to take self responsability instead of finding fake enemies in the dark is the first step to grow as humanity. The world is of all and all the people should do their little part instead of waiting for a savior.
@zataflex Your right, people are lazy. That is a big factor of the future of alternative resources. But think about the automobile industry for example. Scientists have prooven that fully electronicaly run cars perform just as well as gas operated vehicles. Yet if the automobile industry started mass producing electric cars, the oil industry would take a nose dive in profits. Those two industries practically work with each other. Sure there are hybrids out there but no electric. Corporate gain.
@Natedawg422 if someone just told ppl how they could stop paying bills by having a little windmill on their roof, 20 years ago, imagine what today would be like..
and yet we're still just burning shit out of the ground for power.. we should be ashamed
For helix turbine the horizontal axis design is better cose can gain power from winds lined to its axis too. Like this - Asia Alliance Base. This is one of the best designs ever...
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I am currently designing and making a helical savonius turbine just like this and the HelixWind and Helyx turbines. They all seem to have patents but I can't seem to find out the specifics. I just want to start a company and sell budget super cheap versions but I am not sure if I would be breaking patent laws or not. Any ideas?
vertical oves are much better for coastal areas as well. if the wind likes to change direction the vertil ones keep going where as the horizontal machines flip all over the place if they are small or...they cannot take advantage of the new wind direction quickly. the bigger they are the slower they are.
Google the name Windside and you'll find all the technical information:
"Windside Wind Turbines are constructed of high quality durable materials to ensure free production of electricity for many years even in the harshest of environments. Their design ensures a minimum requirement for maintenance. When other turbines have failed Windside Wind Turbines continue to produce. A Windside Wind Turbine will probably still be working long after the purchaser." Windside Wind Turbines are soundless 0 db
sorry reading thread is a bit mad. isnt this suppose to be about wind turbines. trying to get technica info etc and start reading about weird religious freaks, Why dont you lot get a life!!! and stop preachin. Vertical Turbine Interest only. Now then how heavy is this and does it come in various W like 40W and 100W. What material is this made of. Can someone let me know wher i can get more info, the manufacturer or whatever. Thanks
the VAWT is made by a company called Windside and the HAWT is a Swift. but these are european manufacture. there will be equivalents in the States. vawt has less vibration, so easier to fix to buildings.
No. next to the VAWT turbine is a wind measurer, its not a turbine. But a few seconds into the movie clip, the camera swings to look at the other turbine on the top of the stair tower, which is a Horiz axis turbine. Over the month I have watched this, i recognise that the VAWT is not so good, it needs so much more wind to get it going.
VA is Vertical axis, HA is Horizontal axis. The VAWT is a great idea in strong gusty winds, but it needs more to get it going. HAWTs get into trouble if the wind is gusty and variable.
You were, at first, challenging me as to whether the Anenometer was a generator. It is, in a tiny way, as it spins enough to make enough current tell the chip the wind speed. But it wont power the building.
no.... i was referring to the little white message in the video explaining about the vertical* generator and the metal wind direction shower thing....
In terms of electrical efficiency, the hawt is much more efficient- the spinning object is lighter. with VAWT, the whole body has to turn, requires more oomph to get going. as one 'cup' is driving round, the returning cup is back against the wind, thus losing energy. However, quiet revolution turbines have a form of vawt that is more efficient once it has got moving. If the wind is turbulent and multidirectional use a VAWT as they keep turning even if the wind varies direction very rapidly.
Wind blows horizontal, to date the most efficient wind turbines are the horizontal type designs NOT the vertical or (helix type) as shown here. Horiz. turbines have the most sweep area per diameter, thus creating the maximum torque at low wind speeds or highter. Helix or vertical wind turbines are the least efficient, in reguards to torque or useable power output!!All of these other vertical turbine designs look nice (for show) but are impractical for any kind of sufficient power generation.
Think of it this way. Is it easier to detatch a bolt with you fingers? or use a wrench? The wrench is easier because the farther the force is from the axis of rotation, the greater the tourque.
But, you dont need Torque in an Energy Generation device. You want speed. The higher speed the device rotates at, the more power will be output. The only reason you would want high torque, is if you were using the wind to run a mechanical energy output to do actual physical work. Magnetic pickup coils do not have high friction, so no need for torque. Torque is Useless in this respect.
Both the power generator and the turbine have inertia that must be overcome to reach high speeds. Wind turbines have to be able to overcome inertia to speed up.
Angular Acceleration = Tourque divided by Inertia.
More inertia means you need more tourque.
So without tourque the turbine would take an extraordinary amount of time to get up to speed... in a vacuum. Turbines have to overcome A LOT of drag from the air to maintain their speed. That requires a force. Rotational force is TORQUE!
Once I buy a house, one way or another, I am gonna seek some alternative way of producing electricity. Probably wind-power. Although it would help the environment, that is not the main reason I'd be doing it. The main reason is to save money. If it helps the environment, wonderful. But I'm all for keeping some money in my pocket.
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As a Christian and a Republican, wind power is destructive to our normal energy companies because who will buy the power if everybody uses this? And it is a slap in the face to all the soldiers fighting in the middle east so we can get oil and make gasoline and electricity. Shame on you people!
If we keep burning gass and oil there wont be any plannet left for your precious soldiers to fight on!
Besides, American forces invading other peoples land to ransack them of their natural resorces and leave them with nothing is hardly somthing to boast about! Idiot.
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catone82 1 month ago
Now that's cool. I could imagine to buy some land and plant some of these babies, vertically combined, on the lot to farm money for me.
Solar batteries are quite expensive and you have to inherit water using rights in Germany for planting a water turbine.
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MucusFelidae 5 months ago
@MucusFelidae FIRST You need the right site for a wind turbine. I would love one on my house, but I have an anemometer up there and know that the wind is too light and variable due to a large hill behind the house that forces the airflow to be about 50 or 60 metres above the house.
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FlowersAll 5 months ago
Question? Can energy from wind be stored, to be used at another time?
gill9275 5 months ago
@gill9275 Yes, by selling it to the national grid! that is a giant battery that returns power to you when the wind isn't doing anything. If you mean, can you be off-grid with wind, you need to clean up the voltage from the turbine with a regulator and charge up deep charge batteries (like caravan or domestic boat batteries), and then run either DC lighting and other fittings (as on a caravan or boat) or use an invertor to convert the battery power back to AC.
dnicholsoncole 5 months ago
i put a wind turbine like that and a solar panel on top of Sheridan college :)
dsouzand 5 months ago
Why don't people build more of these rather then HAWTS if its true they are more efficient, friendlier to the environment.
curingaging00 5 months ago
Lol, sorry the unit on the RIGHT is a anemometer/wind vane. The unit on the left is the VAWT. Oops
SimonFortney 5 months ago
I do agree that VAWT's perform better than HAWT's in smaller applications but I'm afraid that the unit on the left is not a turbine. It's a combination anemometer/wind vane. It measures wind speed and direction. It also looks like it is down wind from the VAWT, and it is picking up turbulence, which would cause it to swivel. Cool turbine though.
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70pda 6 months ago
I think vertical turbines are better I think they dont kill birds on that level as props
SladkaPritomnost 6 months ago
@Cre8tvMG I have not heard of such Batteries. The last big move forward in Batteries was when they released the Patents for the Batteries used on the old Soviet SS20 missiles. Seems they were very High Capacity.
John1576able 6 months ago
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goose2goose2 6 months ago
I invent 15 Years ago a similar System to use it as a Boat Engine. Also to run Wind Turbine Tunnels on Cliffs and Hills. Alone the Distance between Ground and Top let the Turbines working. My new Invent save Worldwide more Energy as Wind turbines can produce. Have a look here in you tube ledmission or Solarlightpanels. This is the future to rescue the World energy Problems. It is Storm proof, Waterproof, Produce Foot in Aquaculture and use for Streetlights and other Light application also.
ledmission 7 months ago
People i want to build a skyscraper which hase only vertical turbins in it, is this possible or crazy idea?
MrEngineerNasa 7 months ago 3
@MrEngineerNasa Such things do exist, there is one in London, The strata tower. also the World Trade Centre in Bahrain.but they are both Horizontal Axis. I dont think i can post a URL in a Youtube reply, or i would give you a reference to some tower design ideas with Vertical axis.
dnicholsoncole 7 months ago
@dnicholsoncole Sorry i ment horizontal Axis lol, but i think i will make this one instead ;) :P
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MrEngineerNasa 7 months ago
@MrEngineerNasa look for TURBINOMIC on youtube for a great integrated concept of wind turbine built into the skyscraper.
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vodafoneoff 8 months ago
Guys. The real breakthrough with wind turbines is going to come when high capacity fuel cell batteries become more affordable. With fuel cell batteries you can constantly trickle charge them with the turbines and tap into them whenever you need power. The real draw back with wind power is you can only rely it for home storage heating or heating water. Fuel cells store enough power to support refrigerators, cookers, TVs, air conditioners, anything in fact.
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@John1576able Have you heard anything about graphite monofilament batteries? High capacity, instant charge. Not ready yet, though.
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CarlVanDoren 10 months ago
Down with Nuclear Energy
dproffessa 10 months ago
how many vertical wind power converters can you have on one ,1000 square roof before it disrupts the wind flow to each other deminishing output from some ?
moecat1000 10 months ago
@moecat1000 I've heard you need to space them out 10 feet apart. Anyone wanting to purchase your own wind turbine DIY kit or parts for your Sovereign independence. Don't be a slave to the electric companies. 1500 Watt all inclusive turbine kit for about $1,500. Go Soveriegn! We have everything from charge controllers to Inverters. visit Sovereign's Depot @ sovdepot.com
indibry 9 months ago
my father had same idea to build vertical one, its more efficient wherever wind blows.. thumb up :)
Brute4Force 10 months ago
nice!
webworkhere 1 year ago
The demonstration is very clear and simple. Easy to understand. Yes, I agree with you that the vertical design of wind turbine is better than the horizontal one. It seem safe. You can be so sure that no one will be harmed. Aside from the fact that you save space in setting up the wind turbine in its respective area.
windturbinesinc 1 year ago
And of course, if you can afford a fancy converter that I'm sure will make life easier and pay for itself but even that is not absolutely needed. Grab 40 used batteries or w/e you need. Grab some electrolite fluid and fixem up good as new. And of course, if you live in appartment, I'm not talking about you lol. But you can always move to a rural area. Google Canada and checkout all the land not being used, it's insane!
thesock0011 1 year ago
So what if one only procudes 50 cents in electricty, just make 200 of them! Now that covers my $100 monthly bill. But 50 cents over a month, that's a little understimating the energy produced I think, over a whole month. Maybe the comment I read meant per day. So then that's $15 a month, and I only need 10 at most per family member at most. Anyone with a backyard can handle that I'm sure. Wire, magnets and batteries, all u need. The rest can be made with almost anything! Old sheets, hangers,w/e.
thesock0011 1 year ago
WOW! So many ridiculous comments imo. A windmill doesn't have to be perfect & doesn't have to be made with epensive materials, nor does it have to last forever! If corporations make them super cheap it would be awesome. But until then we can make them cheap from recycled materiial like an old wooden fence that stood 30 years with just a few coats of paint. Cars in junkyards? And we won't change the weather lol, all the moving trees we cut used to steal energy! Atmosphere is huge compared to us!
thesock0011 1 year ago
It has been 3 yrs since the posting of this video.
Would like to know the current status of this equipment, down time and equipment replacement.
I personally like the look and idea, just need more data.
jmb776 1 year ago
Merry Christmas!
RooftopWind 1 year ago 27
Hi, @environmentplease my house is carbon zero, but its thanks to a large PV roof..... the house is not passivhaus standard. I would really like a wind turbine, but i recognise it would be more decorative than functional in this location.
TallBuildingsTARG 1 year ago
I would like to see more research into reducing the power required by a household.
helstontvx 1 year ago
@helstontvx One thing I am trying is Voltage Optimization. Use a meter to check your voltage on the grid. In our street, it is 248 volts. Assuming the resistance of an appliance doesnt change, then the current flowing will be proportional to the voltage. Reducing the current will reduce the Power consumption. As all appliances in Europe are design to run satisfactorily at 220v (and are capable of running at less) You can save more than 10% of your power in this way.
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
it will not spin counter-clockwise, because it can catch wind from all directions, if a wind never stops blowing, it can go on forever.
MrGamemaker2000 1 year ago
while solar panels produce renewable energy they do use rare earth metals which are in limited supply and it would be difficult for everyone to deploy such solar panels wide deployment of personal wind farms in ideal locations tho would be a good idea.
pebbles1726 1 year ago
@pebbles1726 Isnt Uranium a rare earth metal too? We have used up all the crude and cheap materials in the crust, such as Coal and Oil, so the ones that are left are water, wind, sun or nuclear. Sun being the most plentiful.
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
@dnicholsoncole Uranium is as plentiful as it comes. There is enough uranium on earth to last millions of years at current consumption levels, Uranium is everywhere in small quantities
jfelipe1987 11 months ago
@jfelipe1987 However, with one mistake - BOOM.
Lukergamer 11 months ago
@jfelipe1987 Where is the info on this? I though we had only a few centuries of uranium available.
Cre8tvMG 6 months ago
@dnicholsoncole We're actually several hundred years away from 'using up all the crude and cheap materials' for power. Between oil, natural gas, coal and radioactive elements, we have enough for centuries even with increased usage. Not that I don't like alternative energy sources, but let's get facts straight. Most 'green 'energies cost 10 to 30x more per kilowatt, and that will produce huge negative consequences for everyone - real, not hypothetical consequences.
Cre8tvMG 8 months ago
@Cre8tvMG That is ridiculous optimism! the world population is rising, and the standard of living is rising even faster. The consumption of energy is higher in 2010 than ever, despite all the attempts of governments to reduce energy use. Solar panels recover their cost very quickly. My 28m2 of PV panels entirely cover the heating and hot water costs of my 4 bedroom house, in their first year of operation, making it carbon zero.
dnicholsoncole 8 months ago
@dnicholsoncole So far optimism has been met and exceeded by free markets. Compare standards of living today to 1911. All of that difference is due to the progress of industry and technology made possible by cheap energy. If we reverse the trend we will plunge the world into economic chaos. Do you think the US can stand to have energy costs 20x higher for every family, and in the creation and transportation of every product? It would make the great depression look like a booming market!
Cre8tvMG 8 months ago
@dnicholsoncole BTW, you do know that carbon is a following indicator of global warming, not a leader? I n other words, higher carbon is a result of warming (more plants growing when the continental ice shelfs melt) and it is not a cause of warming, any more than thunder is a cause of lightening. I'd love to put an acre or two of our farm in solar panels and windmills, but the startup costs and environmental consequences are pretty steep.
Cre8tvMG 6 months ago
@Cre8tvMG Green energy can not be called x times more expensive compared to a technology with not yet calculated costs. Since there is no calculation for the cost of storage of nuclear waste for let's say 1 million years there is no comparison. At the moment those kinds of waste have to be relocated every 20 years and I don't have any hope of improvement.
heinrich97 6 months ago
@heinrich97 If you stick the nuclear waste in a 5 mile deep mine and seal it, your cost for the next million years is about 10 dollars a year, amortized.
Cre8tvMG 6 months ago
@Cre8tvMG That is true, but then the problem is, that a technology to seal a mine does not exist. Which leads back to my argumentation. There is no way to calculate the cost until you know what the costs of a sealed mine are. And it will not be cheap to stop geotectonics and other problems in such a big area.
It is no wonder that the first reliable mine has still to be discovered.
heinrich97 5 months ago
@heinrich97 A 1000' cement plug will seal a mine rather well. Remember we're talking about 25,000 feet of bedrock with only one way in or out. (Current deepest mine is about 10,000 feet, btw.) It's not like a surface level garbage dump that has to be sealed from rain runoff. There is no water table 5 miles down to transfer radiation - it just seeps into the rock and stays there forever. And if something ever upheaves rock 5 miles deep, we've got bigger problems than radiation.
Cre8tvMG 5 months ago
@Cre8tvMG Well good thing you have such a mine. Where did you say was it exactly? And who is the guy that personally guarantees there will never be cracks in there for about a million years? I really wonder what his insurance company is asking him monthly for the risk of being wrong. One billion? After all there already have been some mines that were absolutely secure until they stopped being secure :) Of course the liability premium has to be part of the cost calculation as in every project.
heinrich97 4 months ago
@heinrich97 There are deep mines all over the world, some in solid bedrock. At that depth, you really don't need to worry if there IS a crack, or an earthquake - it's not going anywhere. It's miles deep! Anything that would bring it up would kill us long before it got here! And no you can't insure that, it's silly to even suggest it. It's a national government endeavor, not a private company endeavor. You may as well insure the planet against global warming.
Cre8tvMG 4 months ago
@heinrich97 "the first reliable mine has still to be discovered" I can't even tell what you mean here. There are deep mines all over the world. Nearly all of them are reliable in the sense that if you filled the deepest tunnels with sealed containers of nuclear waste, filled those tunnels with cement, and poured thousands of feet of concrete plug, the contents aren't going anywhere, ever. Can you tell me how radiation would escape??
Cre8tvMG 4 months ago
@Cre8tvMG I doubt that you could fill a whole mine with cement. That would be tremendously expensive. And it is pretty useless since it doesn't last for even 10000 years. A slong as everything is thight I don't understand why you would use "sealed" containers. Anyway: There will be water and it will destroy the containers within 100 years no matter how they are constructed. And cement is not waterproof. Besides they tried it here in germany and they failed. Try atommuell-endlager.de
heinrich97 4 months ago
@Cre8tvMG You must be a republican.
tirpitz19 6 months ago
@tirpitz19 I don't trust none of them! I think we might be better off to start fresh and limit everyone to 1 term. It's hard to imagine it being worse! I'm a fiscal conservative, a moral libertarian in the original constitutional mold, and I have voted for Republicans when I thought they were a slower expansion of insanity than the alternatives.
Cre8tvMG 6 months ago
@tirpitz19 I'm a fiscal, moral and constitutional conservative. That doesn't always mean Republican, I'm afraid!
Cre8tvMG 5 months ago
@tirpitz19 Ah - my use of rational arguments, logic and facts sets me apart from the emotional blather of the left, eh? Easy to stand above the froth I guess. ;-)
Cre8tvMG 5 months ago
@pebbles1726 Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in the Earth's crust,
jfelipe1987 11 months ago
@pebbles1726 but you know if people were mining the moon and asteroids these minerals would be much more plentiful.
hihosh1 8 months ago
@pebbles1726 Solar cell use silicon which is the second most abundant element on earth surpass by only oxygen. However, silicon rarely excess in pure form. The exist in sand
piggy933 8 months ago
Miło popatrzeć jak coś takiego działa i nie jest to zabawka !
Agrmons 1 year ago
It is spinning clockwise in this video - but it might spin counter if wind from different direction. Don't know.
JobsJobsJobsRats 1 year ago
@JobsJobsJobsRats It will always spin in the same direction whichever way the wind blows, because of the curvature of the blades - its like an anenometer. I am pretty convinced that the better vertical axis ones are the wider ones (unlike this). They have more turning moment on the dynamo.
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
@dnicholsoncole Thanks for the info. So any suggestions for a good home version?
JobsJobsJobsRats 1 year ago
Wow, Great video.
Will you take a look at my list of DIY courses at IMECOFARM com.
We have a 3 day build a wind turbine course ! Thanks Eddie
eddieconnors 1 year ago
@eddieconnors I would absolutely love to come to one of your courses. But its a VERy long way, and i have to look after disabled wife, so cannot go anywhere, even for more than a day. But well done for organising such great looking courses!
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
The Spinning Turbine - Is it spinning clockwise or counter clockwise?
caprisunn06 1 year ago
@caprisunn06 It goes so that the wind is pushing the concave curve of the blades, and as it turns, the convex curve is moving forward through the air.
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
The
General Electric wind turbine looks like a hoax to me. I believe a new design could work better than that turbine designed by GE engineers. A variable resistance vane would make it a continuous source of energy and more resistance would increse the amps produced when all of the vanes are turning at maximum speed.
gophomaxx 1 year ago
I think each house should be independent on their electricity. Instead of your typical panels used for roofing, use solar panels.
mankyman6 1 year ago
@mankyman6 It is possible to have 'In roof' solar panels, i.e. they ARE the roof, with insulated decking under of course. i am a bit suspicious of them, firstly as they are not so easily swappable or checkable in case of problems, but they also get quite hot, and with my panels, I can hear them expanding and contracting during the day as the clouds move over the sun.
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
@mankyman6 because everybody has a fat enough wallet to buy a house with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of inefficent solar panels.
massoonmann 1 year ago
@mankyman6 you know that your sun and wind tax will be the same as an electric bill, you must be willing to accept that fact you are not a free man you are a slave. im sorry but untill you accept that their will be no independant house electricity. i have waited 27 years to purchase an electric car. i know why i cant buy one.
datzfast 1 year ago
@mankyman6
it's to expensive,to implement on wide scale.
captinseperoth 1 year ago
for vertical wind generators..
this really is the best design for it?
because it have less angular momentum. so... i think.. it have less inertia.
all the way, it adapts more easy for the wind velocity changes.
i dont know.. i really want to know witch design is best for vertical axis.
anyone have any idea?!!?!?!??!
d4du88 1 year ago
@d4du88 the vertical axis (VAWT) are better in turbulent wind conditions. but it takes more energy to get them swinging and they are less productive. most people prefer horizontal axis even if it requires cleaner air conditions for it to work. If I get one for my own house, it will be a HAWT.
TallBuildingsTARG 1 year ago
nice video man, i like it.
HomePowerWind 1 year ago
I heard that all these windmills and Helixs use more energy to make that they would every recover in their lifetime.Also lets say that you buy a helix for your backyard and disc from your grid and that you pay $10k for it,With a $100 a month(avg electric bill) savings it would take 8 years to pay for itself.How much more life expectancy is left?If it breaks down in that 8 year period ,I'm sure that it would major expensive.Until these ppl tell us these facts,I wont be buying one.
purplesageify 1 year ago
@purplesageify
ummm... so you will go without electricity when Big Oil is all sucked dry?!? ok your choice. BUILD ONE YOURSELF!!!!!!!
IronHorsez88 1 year ago
Sollte in der Walfischbucht eine 150 kw-Anlage geplant werden, ist besser eine stallgesteuerte. Jörn
Joernrasmusmohr 1 year ago
it looks cool too :)
MrGimli2 2 years ago
@MrGimli2 yes it looks cool but can you guess how much energy is generated by these in one month? $0.50 worth...and it takes about $40,000 to install one of these things on building
shizlnit 1 year ago
@shizlnit
Your in bed with Big Oil too!? Go away back to saudi.
IronHorsez88 1 year ago
excelent ,excelent.....
sr jss
jesussuperstar1 2 years ago
thankx for the idea man
thegreatkoua 2 years ago
Makes you wonder why weve been wasting our time and money on gas and oil for electricity. You know why? Big corporations that take advantage of the general populace for their own personal wealth.
Natedawg422 2 years ago 15
I have a fully Solar electric roof, and over a WHOLE year, it does produce enough to be equivalent to our power, cooking and lighting needs. (not heating and HW). However it does this by selling to the grid, so we buy in the winter, and are selling a lot more in the summer. If more people would do it, we could hibernate some power stations in the summer months (my electricity goes directly to the neighbours).
dnicholsoncole 2 years ago 28
it would be neet to be able to do this, you hear about it enough that you'd think people are stupid, NOT to do it. but is there alot of startup cost to be able to do that?
junkyardjim 2 years ago
@dnicholsoncole I remember reading about a house that was built next to a stream which generated its own power throughout the year with a combination of solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power. It seems to me like diversifying power generation is the best way to go about replacing polluting energy sources.
concordat 1 year ago
@dnicholsoncole
Yes , but how much did it cost ? solarpanels are expensive + to produse them takes ALOT of power... and your solar roof would need a transformer big enough to handle so much ampere at low voltige ^^
anton854 1 year ago
@anton854 I have a 4 kW inverter.... the roof produces enough to give me free energy for 25 years. whats wrong with that? the embodied energy cost is paid off in about 2 yrs. How much embodied energy is in your chevvy?
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
@dnicholsoncole i think you miss understod me :P
i think that what your doing is good, actualy great. But my piont was that solarpanels are realy expensive and were i live ( Northern Norway) we dont have sunlight in the winter mounths at all and when we have sunlight at the summer it isnt to bright.
And wind generators are great but we cant use them at winter cuz they would freeze down. So the only energy we have is eather from russian nuclear powerplants or russian nuclear powerplants....
anton854 1 year ago
@anton854 When having a debate with someone in a public forum, wouldnt it be better to argue from the more general standpoint, than from a highly personal one? Or at least to reveal your context. Here I find myself discussing solar power with someone who lives north of the Arctic Circle. Where you live, the sun can do a 360º rotation in the summer, and you could have summer time panels only on a circular tracking axis - and then keep them in safe storage during winter.
dnicholsoncole 1 year ago
@dnicholsoncole I'm nineteen, I'm trying to make a summer project to solar my parents house in two months. think it can happen? I'm an environmental design major I'm trying to get my hands dirty... i mean clean.
EnvironmentPlease 1 year ago
lol there was an exon mobil add at the start of this video lol
ShirakOmegaX 2 years ago
@Natedawg422 get off the grid and stop whining
MondoMedia7 2 years ago
@Natedawg422 Realize that as much as this 'free energy' idea is great and empowering. The corporations will still be selling it to us. The Oil Companies will shift investments on whatever seems to work. We are talking about trillions of dollars. Don't think anything is free. You can help decrease your power bill, but these 'evil' corporations are not going to disappear. You will still be paying bills to someone. Cheers, my name is reality.
walperstyle 1 year ago
@walperstyle Sadly your right. Somebody could come along and try to turn a profit on wind power, but at least wind is a resource that would never run out and cant have its prices changed based on its abundance.
Natedawg422 1 year ago
@Natedawg422 ur just jealous
dzgfdg 1 year ago
@dzgfdg Yeah! I wish I had, like, ten of those things for my apartment. Id never pay for electricity agian
Natedawg422 1 year ago
@Natedawg422 If we wasted tile and money is not because of the Big corporation but because of the lazyness of the people that were used to have cheap energy. Start to take self responsability instead of finding fake enemies in the dark is the first step to grow as humanity. The world is of all and all the people should do their little part instead of waiting for a savior.
zataflex 1 year ago
@zataflex Your right, people are lazy. That is a big factor of the future of alternative resources. But think about the automobile industry for example. Scientists have prooven that fully electronicaly run cars perform just as well as gas operated vehicles. Yet if the automobile industry started mass producing electric cars, the oil industry would take a nose dive in profits. Those two industries practically work with each other. Sure there are hybrids out there but no electric. Corporate gain.
Natedawg422 1 year ago
@Natedawg422 if someone just told ppl how they could stop paying bills by having a little windmill on their roof, 20 years ago, imagine what today would be like..
and yet we're still just burning shit out of the ground for power.. we should be ashamed
SatoTM2 1 year ago
For helix turbine the horizontal axis design is better cose can gain power from winds lined to its axis too. Like this - Asia Alliance Base. This is one of the best designs ever...
HollySpiritRulez 2 years ago
Isnt this the same turbine that Cousteau once used for his ship to replace traditional sails?
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scientificallygreene 2 years ago
vertical axis design is better
bullcurr 2 years ago
What is the cost?
deals2useDOTcom 2 years ago
Looks like the Helix by HelixWind. I think a german company.
oneyoungamerican 2 years ago
how do you make it
Vegeta123117 2 years ago
wanna double the power ? add a stator on top :D
iulian28ti 2 years ago
Awesome, Now is there a company that sells this specific model in this size? Website?
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gdolim8 2 years ago 4
how much is this turbine?
enyawix 2 years ago
Why on earth would you look on youtube for patent advice,
danphobic? If your asking on youtube then I doubt your ready for the whole business venture thing...
WildoTheRubberFist 2 years ago
vertical axis is the better design.
wind is turbulent & wind comes from any of 360 degrees.
pure & simple
jasong19711 2 years ago
In the UK that is.
danphobic 3 years ago
Hi All,
I am currently designing and making a helical savonius turbine just like this and the HelixWind and Helyx turbines. They all seem to have patents but I can't seem to find out the specifics. I just want to start a company and sell budget super cheap versions but I am not sure if I would be breaking patent laws or not. Any ideas?
danphobic 3 years ago
sorry that was supposed to say vertical ones... oops
ReinhardvonHolst 3 years ago
vertical oves are much better for coastal areas as well. if the wind likes to change direction the vertil ones keep going where as the horizontal machines flip all over the place if they are small or...they cannot take advantage of the new wind direction quickly. the bigger they are the slower they are.
ReinhardvonHolst 3 years ago
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JohnLloydScharf 3 years ago
what is the maximum turing speed (RPM) of these windturbines ?
anarchyken 3 years ago
3800-6400 depending on the ferociousness of the sun on any given day.
dontsend36 2 years ago
Google the name Windside and you'll find all the technical information:
"Windside Wind Turbines are constructed of high quality durable materials to ensure free production of electricity for many years even in the harshest of environments. Their design ensures a minimum requirement for maintenance. When other turbines have failed Windside Wind Turbines continue to produce. A Windside Wind Turbine will probably still be working long after the purchaser." Windside Wind Turbines are soundless 0 db
umpeloonen 3 years ago 3
sorry reading thread is a bit mad. isnt this suppose to be about wind turbines. trying to get technica info etc and start reading about weird religious freaks, Why dont you lot get a life!!! and stop preachin. Vertical Turbine Interest only. Now then how heavy is this and does it come in various W like 40W and 100W. What material is this made of. Can someone let me know wher i can get more info, the manufacturer or whatever. Thanks
flagler1970 3 years ago 5
the VAWT is made by a company called Windside and the HAWT is a Swift. but these are european manufacture. there will be equivalents in the States. vawt has less vibration, so easier to fix to buildings.
dnicholsoncole 3 years ago
YOu can definently see the advantages over the traditional ones. the vertical probrubly has a bigger alternator and producing much more power.
alphaman1101 3 years ago
This is the design I am using. Works fabulous.
Kevinite 3 years ago 3
are you trying to call that wind direction teller thing (*metal windsock*) a generator?
marshalnd 3 years ago
No. next to the VAWT turbine is a wind measurer, its not a turbine. But a few seconds into the movie clip, the camera swings to look at the other turbine on the top of the stair tower, which is a Horiz axis turbine. Over the month I have watched this, i recognise that the VAWT is not so good, it needs so much more wind to get it going.
dnicholsoncole 3 years ago
so which one is the VAWT? the fast one in the beginning or the fan one?
marshalnd 3 years ago
VA is Vertical axis, HA is Horizontal axis. The VAWT is a great idea in strong gusty winds, but it needs more to get it going. HAWTs get into trouble if the wind is gusty and variable.
dnicholsoncole 3 years ago
sooooooo what are we trying to figure out here..... i think were on 2 different subjects
marshalnd 3 years ago
You were, at first, challenging me as to whether the Anenometer was a generator. It is, in a tiny way, as it spins enough to make enough current tell the chip the wind speed. But it wont power the building.
dnicholsoncole 3 years ago
no.... i was referring to the little white message in the video explaining about the vertical* generator and the metal wind direction shower thing....
marshalnd 3 years ago
So you're saying that the VAWT isn't as efficient as the HAWT?
JamboyStu 3 years ago
In terms of electrical efficiency, the hawt is much more efficient- the spinning object is lighter. with VAWT, the whole body has to turn, requires more oomph to get going. as one 'cup' is driving round, the returning cup is back against the wind, thus losing energy. However, quiet revolution turbines have a form of vawt that is more efficient once it has got moving. If the wind is turbulent and multidirectional use a VAWT as they keep turning even if the wind varies direction very rapidly.
CorusBCSATraining 3 years ago
OK so there are advantages in both designs.
JamboyStu 3 years ago
Hi there, so do you make these? If so do you amke a 40W and 100W VAWT. What material is used? How heavy is it?
flagler1970 3 years ago
Hello, where can you buy it? Or how do i make it? how much KwH in a year?
thnx
Muchfunatmyhouse 3 years ago
Google the name: Windside
umpeloonen 3 years ago
Vertical Axis wind turbines RULE!
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windpowerrocks 3 years ago
Wind blows horizontal, to date the most efficient wind turbines are the horizontal type designs NOT the vertical or (helix type) as shown here. Horiz. turbines have the most sweep area per diameter, thus creating the maximum torque at low wind speeds or highter. Helix or vertical wind turbines are the least efficient, in reguards to torque or useable power output!!All of these other vertical turbine designs look nice (for show) but are impractical for any kind of sufficient power generation.
mechtech2004 3 years ago
Where have you got this opinion / information from? What if you just turn the whole thing
an install it horizontally? A bit more precise would help us understand. At least it works,
means it does turn. It would fit to my rooftop.
bagalut 3 years ago 2
Think of it this way. Is it easier to detatch a bolt with you fingers? or use a wrench? The wrench is easier because the farther the force is from the axis of rotation, the greater the tourque.
isaacopedal 3 years ago
But, you dont need Torque in an Energy Generation device. You want speed. The higher speed the device rotates at, the more power will be output. The only reason you would want high torque, is if you were using the wind to run a mechanical energy output to do actual physical work. Magnetic pickup coils do not have high friction, so no need for torque. Torque is Useless in this respect.
xiaou2 3 years ago
Both the power generator and the turbine have inertia that must be overcome to reach high speeds. Wind turbines have to be able to overcome inertia to speed up.
Angular Acceleration = Tourque divided by Inertia.
More inertia means you need more tourque.
So without tourque the turbine would take an extraordinary amount of time to get up to speed... in a vacuum. Turbines have to overcome A LOT of drag from the air to maintain their speed. That requires a force. Rotational force is TORQUE!
isaacopedal 3 years ago
where do you get these vertical wind turbine
zqx357 3 years ago 2
Did you find out where to get one of these Turbines?
windenergy1 3 years ago
I would LOVE to have a wind/solar tandem set up at my place that would in effect, get the best of both!
jasong19711 3 years ago 3
Once I buy a house, one way or another, I am gonna seek some alternative way of producing electricity. Probably wind-power. Although it would help the environment, that is not the main reason I'd be doing it. The main reason is to save money. If it helps the environment, wonderful. But I'm all for keeping some money in my pocket.
thesoulsekr 3 years ago 3
Who sells those ? I would like to buy one.
dusteroo 3 years ago
i dont know where to buy one but i think i know how to make one take some wood and a 3 blade industial ceiling fan cut out a triangle
about 3 ft down 2 ft up 5 ft tall and attach
that to the mount pole and hook the wires
up to a capassiter if you take a small
3.5 volt motor and a small 2 volt light bulb
and hook them up and spin the shaft the motor
generates electricity and the light bulb will glow and if you spin it realy fast it will shine brightly the fan will work the same
way
matthewjohnmcgee 3 years ago
Google the name: Windside
umpeloonen 3 years ago
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As a Christian and a Republican, wind power is destructive to our normal energy companies because who will buy the power if everybody uses this? And it is a slap in the face to all the soldiers fighting in the middle east so we can get oil and make gasoline and electricity. Shame on you people!
LatteLiberal 3 years ago
Are you serious?!
If we keep burning gass and oil there wont be any plannet left for your precious soldiers to fight on!
Besides, American forces invading other peoples land to ransack them of their natural resorces and leave them with nothing is hardly somthing to boast about! Idiot.
SwingYouth 3 years ago 16