WindTamer Turbines - The Most Efficient Technology

Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear NOTE: Some major wind projects like the proposed TWE Carbon Valley project in Wyoming are already pricing in significantly lower than coal power -- $80 per MWh for wind versus $90 per MWh for coal -- and that is without government subsidies using today's wind turbine technology. The International Clean Energy Analysis (ICEA) gateway estimates that the U.S. possesses 2.2 million km2 of high wind potential (Class 3-7 winds) — about 850,000 square miles of land that could yield high levels of wind energy. This makes the U.S. something of a Saudi Arabia for wind energy, ranked third in the world for total wind energy potential. The United States uses about 26.6 billion MWh's, so at the above rate we could satisfy a full one-third of our total annual energy needs. Now what if a breakthrough came along that potentially tripled the energy output of those turbines? Well, such a breakthrough has been made, and it's called the "wind lens." Editor's note: Want more info?

Tesla Technology: 5 Bladeless Turbines About To Revolutionize Energy Production Tesla Technology: 5 Bladeless Turbines About To Revolutionize Energy Production www.endalldisease.com “Every home in America can run on wind energy. In fact these units can be installed on existing power poles in rural areas, to catch the wind and send its energy back to the plant.” - Raymond Green, Inventor In 1913, Inventor Nikola Tesla patented a bladeless steam turbine that he claimed was the most efficient and the most simple rotary engine ever designed. One century later, we now have all the materials needed to build Tesla’s turbine, and in 2010, a patent was issued to a company called Solar Aero for a wind turbine based on the Tesla design. Current wind turbine technology with rotating blades is both inefficient, and causes noise pollution, which has been reported to have detrimental health effects on residents living nearby. Bladeless Wind Turbine #1: ‘The Saphonian’ Bladeless Wind Turbine #2: ‘The EWICON’

Home Made Wind Turbine Want to build a wind turbine for your home? I have gathered several PDFs for those who want to build there own wind turbines and have links to them at the bottom of this post. They cover all types of wind turbines and issues that you may run in to such as wind speeds and noise. From reading these my self I have found that the Hi-VAWT takes all into consideration and is easy to replicate. In VENTURI horizontal axis Wind Turbines wind turbines the blades rotate and describe a circular surface. Et si vous fabriquiez votre éolienne maison... Une éolienne en bois, installée au fond du jardin et raccordée à votre réseau électrique. C'est possible ! C'est le message que veut faire passer l'association Al'Terre Breizh, qui organise un stage de fabrication d'éoliennes domestiques du 2 au 6 juin prochains. Une formation qui aura lieu au Manoir de Lohennec à Pleyber-Christ. « Quand ils appuient sur un interrupteur, les gens ont souvent l'impression que la lumière, c'est magique. Que ce n'est pas une réalisation humaine à leur portée. En quelques jours, nous voulons leur prouver le contraire, en construisant des éoliennes avec des matériaux durables », annonce Valérie Rivier, chargée de mission à Al'Terre Breizh. Des professionnels encadreront les stagiaires À l'issue de la formation, dont l'inscription coûte entre 225 et 400 €, les participants auront réalisé deux éoliennes : une qui restera sur place et une autre tirée au sort entre les stagiaires. Dix éoliennes domestiques en Bretagne

Funny Looking Tower Generates 600% More Electrical Energy Than Traditional Wind Turbines The Sheerwind wind turbine promises to produce 6 times the electrical power than traditional wind turbines. This funny looking wind tower acts like a funnel, directing the wind from any angle, down through a tube to a ground based turbine generator. The funneling of the wind through a narrow passage effectively creates a “jet effect” increasing the velocity of the wind, while lowering the pressure. This is called the Venturi Effect. As such it can capture and generate electricity at a much lower wind speed than current wind power technologies. The idea is so simple, so elegant, and promises to produce so much more energy at lower cost and more efficiently, that it might just be the answer to many problems with current wind turbine technology. This technology is not really new in the science of fluid dynamics, however this is a new way to generate electricity, and if successful, promises to grow the wind energy in a more eco-friendly way than ever thought possible. via: Sheerwind Comments

Making a simple Savonius wind turbine by Lance Turner There are many situations where you might need a small amount of electricity, for instance running gate openers, safety lights, water level indicators and other low-power devices. While solar would seem like the ideal solution, quite often this is not possible due to location and shading problems. Just such a situation arose when I decided to make our new gates automatic. Why have automatic gates anyway? Anyway, I decided to provide power to the electric gate openers from a small wind turbine. The gate opener system itself is a home-made job, using car windscreen wiper motors driving long brass threaded shafts. Too much turbulence I briefly thought about what type of turbine I could install and how it would look. This type of vertical axis rotor is very robust and durable if built correctly, is relatively slow turning and can be easily built at home, without the hassles of aerofoil blade design and other problems associated with horizontal axis ‘propeller’ type turbines.

Un stage pour construire soi-même son éolienne Construire sa propre éolienne et pouvoir ainsi produire en partie son électricité. Beaucoup en rêvent, d'autres y songent sérieusement. La solution existe au travers d'un stage, pour une vingtaine de personnes, qui se déroulera du 2 au 6 juin prochains, sur le manoir de l'exploitation que tient Yvon Hameury, au lieu-dit Lohennec. C'est l'association quimpéroise Al'Terre Breizh qui organise ce stage « ouvert à tous sans être spécialement bricoleur », affirment Valérie Rivier et Marie Egreteau, les organisatrices. « Notre association est spécialisée dans l'accompagnement des transitions vers des modes de vie plus durables. » Trois ateliers sont proposés. 2 000 watts de production Une éolienne de type Piggott permet de produire 2 000 watts, « ce qui peut alimenter une maison simple sans trop d'équipements ». Le stage est animé par des formateurs de l'association Tripalium et une intervenante d'Al'Terre Breizh.

Wind Turbine Output Boosted 30% by Breakthrough Design Clean Power Published on April 29th, 2009 | by Timothy B. Hurst Passive structure design of “Wind Energizer” by Leviathan Energy reportedly increases wind turbine efficiency 30% in field tests. Technological advancements in wind energy efficiency have generally come incrementally and usually made via a process of increasingly large wind turbine blades. But that pattern of incremental improvements may be a thing of the past if Leviathan Energy has anything to say about it. The principle theory at work is that by placing passive objects around a wind farm it will change the circulation around a large wind turbine. “This is a disruptive technology,” Leviathan Energy CEO Dr. Farb is a bit of a modern day renaissance man. The Wind Energizer is a donut-shaped structure made from steel and plastic, but the exact dimensions of it depend on site-specific data, like the tower height, length of the blades, prevailing wind direction and intensity, etc. Images courtesy of Leviathan Energy Timothy B.