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Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-just-hot-air dept.

Sterling D. Allan writes "After 10 years of prototyping, wind tunnel testing, patenting, and tweaking, Ron Taylor of Cheyenne (windy) Wyoming is ready to take his vertical axis wind turbine into commercial production. Design creates pull on the back side contributing to 40%+ wind conversion efficiencies. Because it spins at wind speed, it doesn't kill birds, and it runs more quietly. It also doesn't need to be installed as high, and it can withstand significantly higher winds (can generate in winds up to 70 mph, compared to ~54 mph tops for propeller designs). Generating costs estimated at 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, putting it in the lead pocket-book-wise not just of wind and solar, but of conventional power as well. Production prototype completion expected in 5-7 months."

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  1. Miguel De Icaza by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mono assumes that .NET *has succeeded* and it claims to be an open source alternative to save our poor ass. But .NET will *never succeed* if it's a windows-only thing because it's supposed to be a portable runtime by definition. Therefore Mono is microsoft's backdoor in making .NET portable in the open source domain.

    Novell funds Mono with millions of dollars while good projects like valgrind, qemu, mplayer, etc get 0 cash. And Novell sells CDs that contain those programs.

    Think about who is you friend and if you should deliver top quality software to an industry that doesn't pay back...

  2. Re:Doesn't kill birds? by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually I have read the F-ing article, don't be so presumptious and have the balls to post with your name instead of anonymous.

    Pussy

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  3. Re:Windside has something similar (for twenty year by kimmo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > Not sure what the differences might be. Winside apparently has been producing these
    > vertical axis windmills for extreme environments for, they say, about twenty years.
    > But they do seem costly. They use a helix type design for the blades, see:
    > http://www.windside.com/products.html

    Differences, hmm..
    Windside, 1979, Risto Joutsiniemi, Finland.
    Linux, 1991, Linus Torvalds, Finland.
    TMA vertical axis wind turbine, 2005, USA.

    The two first entries come from Finland, and two last entries are open source. Maybe they would all be open source had the concept been known in 1979.. :)

  4. This is offtopic, but ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... are you german?

  5. Muslims invaded Spain in 711AD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They attacked first. If it weren't for the Crusades, the Muslims would have invaded through Serbia and Germany, conquering all of Europe. There would be no America right now, because Benjamin Franklin would have been executed for apostasy and immoral conduct (eating French pussy).

    So, you can thank Yahweh that the Pope called for the Crusades. The only thing we did wrong during the Crusades is we didn't wipe their filth out for all eternity.

    They'll do it to us, so I'd rather we do it to them, first.

    1. Re:Muslims invaded Spain in 711AD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      But we're about to finish 'em in the not-so-distant future. Medieval attitutes and a male-glorifying cult disguised as religion are incompatible with a free world. Either our fellow Arabs give up their violent way of life, the suppression of women and their horribly backwards way of everything OR they will face expulsion from our countries, our trade and the advancing of society, just like Africa is today, disconnected from all the niceties our freedom and wealth brings. If people just cannot grasp the fact that freedom, peace and education are the only things that can bring wealth and advancement, then these people have no place here. Muslims seem to think our wealth is coming out of nowhere or is only being stolen from everyone else, but that's not true: we are wealthy, because we are free. Any reduction in freedom brings less wealth and more corruption. African and Arab states have the least free people and the most corrupted regimes and therefore the most poverty, if it weren't for all that oil. Keep that in mind: immigrants that come here for freedom or wealth must not carry over their freedom-hating, wealth-draining attitudes from their homeland. If they don't, they will soon make our countries as oppressed and poor as their homelands. And God help me if we let them do that!

  6. Re:ALLAH be FUCKED if I let Muslims run MY country by Raithmir · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Me neither, so I looked. You seem to have rather a lot of foes to say you only just discovered it.

  7. Re:Birds... by Dan+Ost · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thank you for a well written, informative, and insightful post.

    Hopefully the moderators will mod you accordingly.

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    *sigh* back to work...
  8. Is it just me or... by xv4n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He looks just like Count Doku.