Darrieus Hydro Turbine

My mechanical engineering design project. Built with a grand total of $300 in materials.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Darrieus
• Hydro
• Renewable
• energy
• H-rotor
• water
• turbine

[montrealbroadway]

how much electricity is this producing?

[Holsterinalaska]

None.

I built this as a platform to test different variations of the turbine... ex.. blade placement, rotor diameter, etc.

[38view]

@photofox1985 are U drunk?

[Urban509]

should of built it upright with a plate on the back diverting water into the bottom spinning the wheel round a horisontal axis. would of spun allot faster without resistance in the opposite direction.

[homskoult]

If vertical axis turbines were effective in water, boat propellers would be obsolete. Urban509 is right about the horizontal axis, however, cupping the blades and only submerging the part of the lower blades that create power would be better.

[wx9dx]

Do you have a pic of the turbin out of the water? Thanks:)

[smellycatpoop]

This will never work!

[MoviesAndGamesTV]

@photofox1985 lol you are stupid!!!! you see wath happen to Japon ????? fukushima

[shotsxxx]

@photofox1985 I do hahahahaha

[Infinitevoyager]

@photofox1985 Obviously you are a twenty five year kid, that quit school at 6 years old. Did you ever see a picture of a hydro electric plant that uses water to turn a turbine? Go check out Hoover Dam. Your friggin computer is probably running off of it right now!!

[damedosmates]

@photofox1985 idiot

[maka666]

@photofox1985 burning salt water will never be the next big thing

[CoyoteBoyUK]

Seems most people here have no idea how a Darrieus generates it's rotational force. Good work, nice little test rig.