Bladeless wind turbines
A newly designed wind turbine leaves behind a loud, noisy and sometimes dangerous traditional feature. Produced by Maya Dangerfield and Matthew Stuart. Video courtesy of AP. Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/tech_insider/ TUMBLR: http://techinsider.tumblr.com/
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Dumb idea
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This looks unstable AF. It wouldn't last a season in Florida.
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Cheaper to make... with that complex gearbox that will probably tear itself or the base apart quick, I think not.
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come onnnnnnn
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Looks more like something the NSA would use to spy on conversations
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Worst of all the wind turbines I've seen. There are much better solutions that work.
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it doesnt make any noise, therefore it doesn't make electricity
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And it generates 3 kWh a MONTH!!!
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You could eliminate a lot of the wobble by having two dishes but, it will quickly start looking like a fanblade turbine, because essentially that's what this is. A single blade turbine, where the blade starts before the central point.
Absolute garbage. It WILL be just as noisy if not more and WILL kill birds at the same scale. -
They should do something about the balancing to stop the movement , counterbalances .
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It's having a seizure at all times!
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HAHAAAA! That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen! Twice as efficient my ass. I'd like to see those numbers.
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Ha ha, saw how that pole is shaking? One storm and your toy is gone!
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Just one more Crowd Funding Rippoff.
Solar Roadways mark 2. -
And the wind capture area is the radius of the blade squared times 3.14.
That silly flapping bowl will need to have a DIAMETER half as much again as a single blade on a traditional wind failure. -
No no no, too unstable, it's moving the whole post. I don't see the need of not having blades, this prototype has more weight and less stability.
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it looks like it is harvesting the power of the earths vibration more than anything. Just say'n.
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Seems like it would create high stresses on the support structure with it's constant 'vibration' eventually causing catastrophic fatigue, let alone hitting a resonance point.
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Tech insider? more like "Marketing Relay for Companies with cool looking stuff"
This thing is a structural nightmare. It swings at a low frequency, high amplitude and depending on the wind speed. Sooner or later it will match its resonance frequency and then it will snap. And i don't want to start with the multiple rotating parts with forces acting on them that do not align with the efficient axes of the bearings. -
How about vertical helix type blades on a normal coil! those look rather solid, birds wont fly in to a pining pole !
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