Neat innovation in wind turbine design

astoner — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:52:09 +0000

I just came across a post on this swedish designed wind turbine. Why is it that we always think wind turbines have to look like air plane propellers? I like the look of this turbine. I’ll have to look around for a translator so I can read the manufactors page, http://www.homeenergy.se. I’d be particular interested in the minimum wind speed rating. Our areas is just borderline for most of the typical style units which kick in around 12 mph. If I’m deciphering the swedish properly I’m think this unit is probably similar at 2 meters / second so that makes it of questionable value.

Ease of installation would also be another consideration. Some of the units I’ve looked at only require a single pole which greatly increase the astectics of a wind turbine. With the possibilities of an increase of 20% – 60% on the cost of electricity some form a electrical generation is looking very appealing.

I hope to see thisbeing available locally in the United State before too long. It is amazing how much further ahead acceptance of a lot of these ideas are in Europe than in the US. Of course they’ve had much higher energy costs for a lot longer the we have in the US.

On a related note, the Coulson Energy Blog is up and running now and his first experiment is very interesting to me. I may well have to work on a similar system for heating some water to add some warmth to a worm bin over the winter. I’ll be sure to post periodic updates on the project if I do.

Allen

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Neat innovation in wind turbine design