The shape is not to hard, it is called a troposkein; and is basically the shape a rope will naturally take if you hold both ends together; and let it hang down.
The trick is figuring out how to keep that high efficiency shape from stalling, and stopping.
well I hope they enjoy themselves.
keeps em off the streets and gives them something to do.
My opinion, after having been involved in 'wind energy' for a decade or so is that it's a bad idea.
waaaaaay too many negatives.
for one...if something can't exist without subsidies (stolen money) then we don't need or want it.
for two..energy storage. We need electricity when we need it...not when the wind blows. NEWFLASH..sometimes the wind blows too hard...and the windmills have to be shut down or get damaged. Some times they get damaged anyway.
There are other reasons 'commercial wind' is a bad idea..but those two are enough.
they also serve who stand and wait.
Actually, the plodders at Sandia labs have published research on the perfect cross sectional shape on a Darrieus rotor.
They don't know how to USE it, but they saved me years of testing, and about four million dollars in testing costs! *
:)oh goody
something no one wants...
Most of the time for sure, LOL! That shape, with that rotor, will harvest about four times the power; with the same sized rotor.
:Dso they say.
is it feasible to manufacture it...'with that shape'?
The shape is not to hard, it is called a troposkein; and is basically the shape a rope will naturally take if you hold both ends together; and let it hang down.
The trick is figuring out how to keep that high efficiency shape from stalling, and stopping.
well I hope they enjoy themselves.
keeps em off the streets and gives them something to do.
My opinion, after having been involved in 'wind energy' for a decade or so is that it's a bad idea.
waaaaaay too many negatives.
for one...if something can't exist without subsidies (stolen money) then we don't need or want it.
for two..energy storage. We need electricity when we need it...not when the wind blows. NEWFLASH..sometimes the wind blows too hard...and the windmills have to be shut down or get damaged. Some times they get damaged anyway.
There are other reasons 'commercial wind' is a bad idea..but those two are enough.