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The Tech That Could Fix One Of Wind Power’s Biggest Problems
Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of the green energy story. He found a start-up called Icewind that is building a new type of funky wind turbine designed to perform well in low-wind conditions but also to slow itself down in high-winds, preventing it from catching on fire or ripping apart.
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He said “people don’t know what that is when they look at” and I’m like “?… wow people are that oblivious”
Why just one piece of rotor in one pole
What happened to this technology now?
I wonder if it would be possible to build these with mag-lev bearings? They would last virtually forever
The Oil and Coal Industry will kill this idea. By force or other means necessary.
No technical data = if it looks and walks like a duck…
So give them the same subsidies given to oil and gas and nuclear industries for decades
this is funny because the air carries electrons and all you have to do is collect them. This is primitive thinking with no technology. They can use a flat plate to attract electron with no moving parts. Maybe hire me?
AMAZING! bring it to Brazil folks!
why uses all metal?
the very most important aspect about this device is it doesnt harm anything but gods pockets.
So it solved how to get electric when the wind is not in the right range.
Iceland ROCKS!
thanks for posting. here are some very very late thoughts. this design is fundamentally flawed, in two ways. the design should include a disc-shaped baffle at either end of the rotor. the design should minimize energy loss due to air being able to deflect, inwards; where the leverage is less. cheers
Yeah I’ve been thinking for years: why are wind turbines not vertical? Less space = more efficient