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‘Urban Wind Farm’: New Turbine Design Could Bring Wind Harvesting Technology to a Rooftop Near You

When you picture a “wind farm,” you might visualize an agricultural like field full of spinning blades. Perhaps it’s on a bluff near the ocean — or on the ocean even — or even in the middle of what used to be corn fields.

Either way, it’s probably not in a city environment, but a British company is hoping to change that. In early July, engineers at McCamley UK Ltd released a design that would allow for urban, rooftop wind turbines. A prototype of the vertical-axis turbine is installed on the U.K‘s Keele University’s science building. According to the university, it is a design that can “cope with the turbulent and variable nature of the gusting wind conditions often found in urban environments.”

(Related: Those ‘Green’ Wind Farms May Actually Be Causing Local Warming)

 

University Testing Companys Prototype of an Urban Wind Turbine Design

Here you can see the wind turbines on top of this building. (Photo: McCamley)

Here’s more on how its design has been found superior compared to traditional wind turbines:

The turbine has been designed to overcome many of the issues associated with large horizontal – axis turbines seen in wind farms.  These turbines rely on a steady wind speed, whereas McCamley’s vertical-axis model is able to cope with the turbulent and variable nature of the gusting wind conditions often found in urban environments. In these situations, when the wind speed drops below 2-3 metres per second the turbine continues to operate, a point at which traditional models stop and when the wind picks up draw power from the Grid to restart.  The McCamley turbine does not require this power to restart, it is a self starting wind turbine.

(Related: ‘Off the Scale’ Winds Send Turbine Up in Flames)

 

University Testing Companys Prototype of an Urban Wind Turbine Design

(Photo: McCamley)

Watch this video explaining the “revolutionary new wind turbine”:

Over the next six months, university students will monitor the wind turbine’s success on their campus.

“We’re pleased to be bringing our prototype to the UK for the first time,” said Scott Elliott, CEO of McCamley, in a statement to the university. “Wind energy has huge potential in the UK, but the traditional wind farm models are just not effective and are certainly not suitable for urban environments. This leaves a huge gap in the market where businesses, residential blocks and other organisations could be benefiting from clean energy.

(H/T: Gizmodo)

Comments (95)

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  • garylee123
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 2:03pm

    “Wind energy has huge potential in the UK, but the traditional wind farm models are just not effective and are certainly not suitable for urban environments.”

    But don’t worry, we‘ll build them anyway and put them in the country where we city dwellers don’t have to look at them or hear them.

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    • sixtysix
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:43am

      I have better idea. We take gang members and other mal-factors for whom there is not enough room in jail and cause them to form a circle and operate the mechanism – as in Conan the Barbarian. It would produce energy, keep the criminals off the streets and keep their potential victims safe. We might even add some OWS protestors and welfare recipients who are healthy and able to work but won’t.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:45am

    It looks more “bird friendly” than the wind mills….. Bat friendly too.

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  • Skee
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:29am

    A machine that will take fifty years to pay for itself, but has a twenty year life span.
    Marketing will have to be creative to sell this thing. Maybe doubles as cheese grater
    or wind powered juicer.

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    • Shackleford
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 3:33pm

      Marketing will have to get creative? Are you saying they won’t be able to use guilt and shame to get politicians to take the money from the citizens to pay for these things? The less efficient and more expensive the better when it comes to environmental stuff.

      That being said, these do seem interesting since rooftops are largely useless anyway.

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  • OneTermPresident
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:21am

    @DAVECORKERY… you keep telling yourself those things DAVE. Look around… you’re part of a teeny tiny group of misguided people.

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  • iowac
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:12am

    Honeywell has already done this, a wind turbine that starts at 0.5 mph and generates power at a low 2 mph. about 6ft in diamter http://www.windtronics.com/honeywell-wind-turbine

    http://youtu.be/BnjdCbbVRDg

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    • mikeyyekim
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:59pm

      Cool! I may get one of those for my pole barn!

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    • Vladilyich
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:48am

      This is old technology! I built something similar thirty years ago using a 55-gallon drum that was cut to make vanes mounted on an old 5KW generator (minus motor). It worked like a charm. IU always wondered why nobody followed up on the vertical design.

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  • battles
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:10am

    No talk of potential price, probably no less than $5000. No talk of output, probably have to use those tiny 12 volt travel trailer bulbs. City ordinances probably require a licensed electricians to install it (mega bucks!). Before that, a city permit (stealth tax) will be required to install it. Then the home owner’s association will have forbidden such devices and sue you to take it down.

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  • DRAGONSEED
    Posted on July 21, 2012 at 5:41am

    Oh, great… MORE NOISE to drive us all crazier.

    How come every time they come up with a so-called eviro-friendly solution, it results in lower quality of life? (Think: “low-flush toilet”…)

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  • RebelPatriot
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 11:35pm

    Little minds such as the atheist can not grasp the concept this planet is it’s own filtration device. It burns off CO2 through the atmosphere and only sun makes it hotter or colder. Nothing that man does has a direct effect on the weather. Well as long as we don’t go completely global nuclear during WWIII, but guess what? When we are all gone from this planet it will purify itself once again a nd provide a substainable environment for living beings. It has already proven to be able to do so during the early years of volcanic eruptions that emmitted more pollution into the environment than man could ever produce.

    Stop with the BS!!!! No one is buying it, it is just more fearmongering by the progressives in order to kill the global economy and make us all there servants.

    There’s a conspiracy you can actually see the facts. The actions taken in order to bring about a desired result.

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    • antiprogressive
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:50am

      But if I can buy a small one for 1000 bucks, put it on my rooftop and get 100 dollars a month all year long knocked off my utility bills, why not?
      Better than stock market returns…

      And if Everyone did it, we WOULD burn less coal and have less air pollution.
      Nothing wrong with THAT.

      I’m not saying or believing that WE are causing global warming – the Earth goes through cycles, this is just another one – but if I can get PAID to have one and put less smoke into the atmosphere, what’s the problem?

      That’s how I see all this stuff.
      Just looking for a way to get my energy for “free” even if it has an initial investment.
      No more utility bills?
      Just get me the right gadget at the right cost.

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    • davecorkery
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:28am

      Why are you so afraid of atheists? You must be since you mention them a lot. Are you starting to see that they are right, and everything you believe in is a lie? Stop being such a chicken and learn something. Like how to spell.

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    • lfoa
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:35am

      @AntiDepressent….
      So true…. make home versions in the $699 range
      Sell them at HomeDepot or Lowes…
      Make them “ground mountable” like a flag pole (20 feet high so the kids don’t get chopped up)

      The electric companies in the USA should be required to have a “reverse” plug in all home unitlity connections that allow for an easy feed INTO the house (and grid)

      AND….
      This style wind generator is NOT NEW…..
      I‘ve seen ’em on Science and Tech show for 20 years now….

      Maybe BAIN Capital can invest in a company to produce these in mass!

      OK… enough said…

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    • antiprogressive
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 10:15pm

      I BELIEVE I’m correct when I say that any outlet will do – so long as this thing has a 120 volt plug.
      Since this thing puts juice INTO the system, it simply slows down the rate at which the meter turns, all other things staying constant.
      If it were to create so much juice that you could run ALL your utilities on it, the meter will actually turn backwards with any ADDITIONAL juice put in. ( multiple units for example)
      Most states have a LAW that requires the utility companies to BUY any juice you create – taking it off your normal bill or crediting you the difference.
      On a LARGE system, you may need a 220 volt plug but as long as you are on the HOUSE side of the meter, I’m pretty sure you can just plug into normal sockets.
      But I won’t swear to that.

      Hook a generator to your exercise bike, plug it into the wall, and you can literally get paid to pedal!!
      Tell your kids it‘s for their health to ride and don’t mention the $$$…

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 11:03pm

    Since Obama didn’t fund this, it’s bound to be a sure-fire success. Where do I buy stock?

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    • RebelPatriot
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 11:18pm

      But who ever did develop it, remember they didn’t do it on their own according to Obama.

      Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver never developed an idea and business on their own.

      Government has always been there for them.

      In reality it has always been the tax payers who have been their for these people, government is just the administrative entity that operates for us.

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  • What_Did_I_Miss
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:02pm

    NEW = something from a Popular Science article 15-20 years ago. Yawn!

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:14pm

      Back then wind turbines did not make economic sense. That is the key. There has been talk of tide flow turbines and Gulf Stream turbines as well. the question that needs to be answered is : return on investment. a wind turbine that can produce 50% of my electric needs and cost less than than 5k will pay for itself in less than ten years. that would be feasible.

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  • nojoke
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:18pm

    I like the idea just make it smaller and cheap and put them on every telephone pole and tie them into the existing power lines at the top of the poles would be smart. It would help the system by volume and something that would create a new use for those ugly poles that are already there.

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    • Rampart
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:51pm

      That thing is gorgous…My wife says she wants 2-3 on top of our home PRONTO.

      Not.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Or even my house. Why should the gov’t reap all the benefit? Or even only business? Individuals can see the use here too.

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    • RavingRabbi
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 9:40am

      I want every highway to have these along the entire length. The wind produced by passing trucks and cars will keep these turning, and light up the highway and nearby homes. With solar panels added on the top, piezoelectric sensors built into the highway http://greenbuildingelements.com/2011/06/24/piezoelectricity-elements/
      and tiny versions of these vertical turbines attached to lithium ion batteries stuck onto every truck tire (which we attach when the trucks enter toll roads, and remove and drain at the end of toll roads), we could power Al Gore’s Internet Superhighway off the highway!

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  • RamonPreston
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:36pm

    You can get plans from Youtube on how to build a “wind turbine” from a ceiling fan. Have seen them for sale on Ebay.They connect to a 12 car battery and use an inverter for household use. No, it won’t power your refrigerator, microwave, etc but good to run radio, computer when the lights are out.

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  • hugo65hsv
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 6:39pm

    I love the new wind turbine.. You can keep the Socialism that’s attached to it though…

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  • title_of_liberty
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:07pm

    This is the perfect example why the government forcing us to use green energy is absurd. Technology is advancing at an incredible speed. The government would have us use the expensive, intrusive, unreliable windpower technology that we have had for a long time, while green technology that actually works and doesn‘t need the government’s help to survive because it can survive in the free market is just around the corner. This new wind technology, the vivace system that can use water currents as low as 1 or 2 miles per hour, and many other examples of technology that will be cost effective in 5, 10, or 15 years, and they want us to be stuck with the kind that doesn’t work.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 6:14pm

      I’ve got a lot of questions….have they solved the problem of vibration; what about the birds? I’ll have to assume the engine/transformer is much smaller than the current tall blade propeller models out there. What about disabling the unit when there is a fire? Firefighters currently have to unhook solar panels on roofs when there is a structure fire and have to be extremely careful when there are vehicle accidents with electric cars. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

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    • Ojebuss
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:07pm

      @ Taquoshi
      didn’t watch the video did ya…..

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 1:31am

      OJEBUSS – You were able to get it to play? I got about the first five or ten seconds to play, it would freeze and then play the same loop over again. After the fourth try, I gave up.

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  • turnabout
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:53pm

    It’s intermittent power, low utilization…in terms of the energy to manufacture, will it ever pay itself back? No.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:35pm

      Agreed….where have you seen a “clean’ wind-turbine smelting plant?? It is a cozy idea to add to the power grid, but is far, far, far, away from being a replacement for traditional power plants….beside I think this design looks more like a water wheel stood on end…maybe they should line it up in a river..it would provide more consistent power for sure…

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:08pm

      Until they can make the wind spontaneously combust it is not feasable.

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:10pm

      Sometimes that happens to me after eating chilli…

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  • Kupo
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:45pm

    Now this is the kind of green energy that I’m talking is beneficial. Make no mistake – green energy is a GOOD thing just so long as the free market is allowed to take care of it. When government starts going in, throwing elbows, and trying to force the process to happen unnaturally, THAT’S when we see disasters like Solyndra and the Volt.

    Let green energy technology develop naturally and it will be here quicker than the government could force the issue. I would argue that government intervention actually sets the green industry backwards instead of forwards – get out and let entrepreneurs handle things.

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    • title_of_liberty
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:16pm

      Well said kupo, that was what I was trying to get across in my comment. It will be faster if they just leave it alone. Well said.

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    • republitarian
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:21pm

      Both comments are well said. Government has no business in it.

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  • ScottG-CO
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:44pm

    I can’t wait for the day that some one, some where makes the connection to the weather trends we are seeing and this removal of energy from the atmosphere. The only problem will be that it will be WAYYYYY too late to do anything about it.

    Go ahead call me crazy- my friends, well some of them, do when I get going about this- you simply cannot screw with Mother Nature like this.

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:10pm

      Comrade please learn from history! Despite all the nonsense, our weather and climate is driven by the SUN and Earths vulcanism, along with the occassional major meteor hit or two, or three, or thousands, like 65 million years ago!
      So chill out, Mother Gaia is doing fine, the Sun burps and she gets warmer, the Sun farts and she gets colder, its all good! After three major ice ages during the last 100,000 or so years, Uncle Marx figured that a little Global Cooling, or Global Warming, whichever floats your boat, would help the workers of the world to bring about world Communism.
      Well, its working pretty well. They don’t teach real history to you, only phony made up c–p! Learn real history, then tell me all about man made global climate change!
      Remember, the Earth is flat, and the Sun, stars and planets all circle the Earth was all “consensus science” along with mankind is less than 6000 years old.
      If that is the case please explan the maps of Peri Reis that show the coastline of Antartica! That coastline hasn’t been seen for more than a 100,000 years!

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    • absolutely
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:11pm

      I agree with you SCOTTG-CO. I am closing in on 70 years old and I have lived my whole life based on common sense and everyone that has no common sense thinks we are crazy. You are right there is a finite amount of energy produced by all things that happen on the earth and by the sun and moon. If we consume that energy or even a significant part of it, we will forever change the climate of earth inadvertantly by changing the flow of air on the surface. Absolutely

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 6:58pm

      Historyguy, you have a very limited understanding of pretty much anything. That’s to expected as the conservative brain has been proven to be smaller than the average intellect of a normal progressive individual. It’s not your fault, though. Religious indoctrination has caused your brain to atrophy to a point where thinking for yourself is a near-impossibility. Kudos to you for learning to read, though.

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    • ScottG-CO
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:10pm

      HISTORYGUY- please note that NO WHERE did I use the term GLOBAL or WARMING or COOLING. It IS about change though.

      I think the severity of weather is in a flux state at this point, it remains to be seen what the changes are, but we are seeing the beginnings now.

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    • Bo Jiden
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:16pm

      Here’s the funniest thing about atheists: They love pretending they’re smarter than everyone else (despite all the things they believe that aren’t based fact of any kind) and they want everyone to agree with them. Yet in never occurs to them that they don’t win any friends by going around being such arrogant d 1 ck s.
      Brilliant strategy there, pal.

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    • Armyduderetired
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:22am

      Energy is neither created or destroyed. Every action has greater or equal re-action. Simple laws. Don’t over analyze to a false conclusion. The government already has the technology to end the energy problem. Just google tesla and HAARP. Make your own conclusions based on the FACTS! Nothing to see here folks, move along now. The government is in control.

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  • helioquois
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:43pm

    During the week of July 4th, I drove from DC to Colorado on I-70. In Kansas there were numerous wind turbine farms with about half of those I could see from the Interstate were not working…why? I wondered if these turbines were erected with public or private funds. If they were put up with public money from the government, they stand as monuments of shame…another example of where the government is not a good steward of taxpayer money. If these new turbines for urban environments are privately funded and erected, then I am all for it as we cannot afford additional incompetence from our government to do these things correctly. They will just extort more taxes to further the obvious failure.

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    • ScottG-CO
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:07pm

      Those farms were put in by the utility companies with your money from increased rates.

      They were put in because the government mandated a certain volume of energy to come from “green” sources.

      You decide for yourself, but I call it a round house tax.

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    • vadale
      Posted on July 21, 2012 at 4:32pm

      bottom line, we voted for the people making us put these worthless things up…there are some good ideas out there, but, these elected officials and our taxes should stay out of it. if it saves money, I’ll buy it. don’t make me buy it..

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:35pm

    Invest our energy future in variables like the wind blowing and the sun shining. If the climate is changing how in Heavens name can we bank on those variables? The term blow hard comes to mind.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:24pm

    How sweetly ironic would it be if, at the insistence of the Greeny Left, human emissions of “Greenhouse Gasses” were slashed to zero and an unintended consequence was a massive reduction in global winds (windmills) and a massive increase in global cloud cover (solar power)?

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  • Shasta
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:22pm

    Nice job. No Barry, the government did not build that, McCamley UK Ltd did. I wonder if they solved the noise problem too. Standard turbines scream so loud under high loads that you wouldn’t wan to live near one.

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:39pm

      The video lady said that the noise was very low. It’s about time someone came up with this. Should have been us, U.S.A. But I love the Brits so good on you!!! Now it they will make one small enough for small houses, we might really see the beginning of our need for fossil fuels.
      Just keep Nobama and his commie friends away from the thing!!!

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:29pm

      1 KW is not enough to power the typical house. What a huge contraption !!

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:01pm

      Hayesstephen, of course it’s not going to be the USA. The teabaggers and the GOP have demonized everything from jobs to green technology. You can’t expect to be batting for the conservative team and then expect this sort of thing to come from it.

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:16pm

      You can see that they combined the Bernouli effect with the Venturi effect to take advantage of any wind direction or speed. the sound volume should be very low since significant pressures due to turbulance are not created and are instead converted into speed. Bird and bat deaths should be low as well due to the external structure and low pressure differential.

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    • jimster
      Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:44am

      Honeywell has a wind turban on the market puts out up to 1.5kwh if you want more you get 2 or 3 and connect them. Only about 6 feet in diaminator.(sp) O, and cost about $9500 each but you can get a tax credit.

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  • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:21pm

    Unintended consequence: dead birds everywhere, food chain severely disrupted.

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    • THX-1138
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:31pm

      Watch the vid. No strkes at all in two years…

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    • stumpy68
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:42pm

      This one appears it could be screened to
      keep birds out still i wonder how long it needs to run
      to break even on the initial investment.
      I have no problem with alternative energy
      as long as its safe ,profitable , and not funded by the
      government.

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:45pm

      THX : I think he was being funny , facetious . Power lines cause birds to die , may be we should get rid of them too ?

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:01pm

      I can see a drone hitting it right now…

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    • LadyLibertykicksASS
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:32pm

      No Bird or Bat strikes in over a year…. !!!! Sounds promising…. !!!!!

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:15pm

    Here’s a snapshot of “High-Tech“ way to attain a ”Sustainable Energy Future” according to today’s Lefties: Windmills (State of the art circa 1000 AD), Trains (State of the art circa 1825) and the Electric Car (State of the art circa 1845). Man, those Lefties are SMART!

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:12pm

    Bet BHO is licling his chops over this. Can see an EO coming soon.

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    • Shasta
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:24pm

      Yes, except BHO also hates private ventures that are successful, so he might stay away from this one.

      Report Post » Shasta  
    • THX-1138
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:30pm

      And this kind of stuff can help “right wing nutjobs” get off the grid. Can’t have that!

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    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:40pm

      @THX-1138
      The wind has got to blow to create this power. There isn’t a gigantic battery in Kansas city to bank it for the country. Power is on demand. Understand? Why must resort to name calling? A psychology 101 class may be quite enlightening for you.

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:49pm

      METEORICLIMBO on @THX-1138 ‘s Name Calling is a last resort when he or she has nothing left to fight with , to me is show desperation. Oh and see about she has been given no humor ( wit ) either ?

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  • RANGER1965
    Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:11pm

    Very nice!

    Now don’t screw it up by subsidizing it. Let it enter the free market without strings attached, and compete equally. If it’s a decent device, generates power, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, it will do well all by itself.

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    • Thighmaster
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:19pm

      C’mon, let’s go in for half a Bil…

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    • Cymry
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:28pm

      all these humanistic socialists who just love darwin choose to deny the obvious observation that capitalism is truly survival of the fittest, while socialism artificially propogates ventures that have proven themselves failures.

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    • ScottG-CO
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:49pm

      @CYMRY
      “capitalism is truly survival of the fittest, while socialism artificially propogates ventures that have proven themselves failures”

      When I read that the bells went off in my head. Capitalism is finding a mate, socialism is finding your cousin- kinda thing!

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:11pm

      Looks like a better design. I wonder what the output is? and does it connect to a battery?

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:04pm

      Scotty, that‘s odd you wouldn’t be in favor of marrying your cousin since it’s legal in pretty much all southern right-wing conservative states, and even smiled upon by many a *********.

      Report Post » FoxholeAtheist  
    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:20pm

      tea ******. LOL.

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