New Wind Turbine Design Good for Rural, Urban Environment
Wind power is one of the fastest growing forms of alternative energy in the world. More and more, wind power mills are seen in the countryside, in large wind farms and for the most part, away from city life. But a new form of wind power is now designed to work in an urban environment. VOA producer Zulima Palacio has the story. Mill Arcega narrates.
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The braking mechanism that limits the speed of the wind turbine broke during a storm in Denmark. This was the outcome. 02/22-2008. jp.dk Bonus info: -The tower of the mill was 60m high -Wind speed was probably around 30 m/s -You can see a truck at the base of the mill, but nobody was hurt. The mill had been evacuated 400m in each direction. Vote Elgaard-Collins ’08!!
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omg, no one needs to buy this kind of stuff from companies, you can build your own wind turbines, just go to home depot
Although highly effective when used in large numbers in off-shore wind farms, they are not so well suited to domestic use.If you live in an urban location, then don’t look at wind as a renewable energy solution – it just won.t perform. To be effective, wind power needs ‘clean air’, with no obstructions, you don’t get that in built up areas.
@Allante715
Actually, the turbines would be more reliable. When a single plant has a technical problem (and they do), it can suddenly shut off over 1GW of supply. A single turbine failing would hardly be noticed. Having the turbines in multiple locations keeps them from all losing wind at once.
Authority belly. I’m convinced. (coal is concentrated sunlight)
@Allante715 No question right now coal is pretty darn efficient but that’s not the point. Burning coal is bad for us and the rest of life on the planet. burning coal wouldn’t be such an issue if the world’s human population was back at the level is was only 100 years ago. Just to many people on this earth and it’s gonna get a lot worse!
I can definitely see wind power supplementing the grid but I don`t see how it can replace it.
1 Ordinary Wind Turbine – 1.5MW
1 Ordinary Coal Plant – 1300MW
1 Ordinary Nuclear Plant – 1200MW
How many wind turbines do you need to displace one coal plant?How much land does one wind turbine need? What is more reliable; 1 coal plant or 1000 wind turbines?You do the math.
@resa263 Yes, that’s a big propaganda that turbines kill a bunch of birds. I have been around literally hundreds of different turbines, windmills, home wind turbine installs or wind farms. I also have three turbines on my own property. I feed birds, have bird houses. I love birds. I never, ever, see a dead bird anywhere, it is truly a rare thing for a bird to fly into a turbine. Birds are more aware and agile, cautious, than that..
I like their design and reported ease of installation. The video that shows it spinning very fast is misleading since, per their specs, even their “extreme” wind version shuts down at over 37mph. It would be nice if there was one that could keep outputting more at high wind speeds which would be a great source of bonus power.
could anyone please tell mw the whole dialogue or put this video with subtitles? Thank you!
The best place would be chicago.
A real good idea
Wind turbines is great as long as you live in a windy area. Other wise it will be money wasted.
I prefer the cilyndrical ones…..
much safer!
Good work designers!
BS BS BS …. really look into VAWTs this guy is BS
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HAH
Is Bird Friendly because the birds can see it??
In part of the clip, you can see a regular horizontal axis turbine, a HAWT, turning at twice the RPM with same wind condition. That’s why the utility companies use horizontal axis turbines with propellor type blades, there is no resistance on backside. With that WindSpire, as one side catches wind, the other is resisted by same wind. That’s why so slow and low yielding.
I’m assuming this design of wind turbines use rising of heat convection along with the Darrieus wind turbine concept to generate electricity?
it’s pretty! I’m all for getting off the grid and doing our part for clean living and I don’t care about the global worming debate I just like doing this stuff anyways, can you believe it?
Did you see the news topday saying that the plant making these WindSpires was going out of business or closing down. I guess the big government subsidies were running out or something. Look at my install of rooftop wind turbines and solar panels at my house. If you Favorite my videos or Subscribe that would be great. Thanks
affordable is relative
build them in the ocean where they be more efficient quit building them in the Allegheney mountains
Wind power is the alternate source of clean energy. There are many companies who are working towards the production of clean and more affordable energy. Transformer company, Pacific Crest Transformers has articles and whitepapers on wind energy. They also provide custom-built energy efficient transformers for wind farms.
probably less noisy than you; and definitely more useful… pea brain.
Wind energy has great potential. Companies like Pacific Crest Transformers offer high quality energy transformers for the wind industry. They include Grounding transformers with harsh duty requirements, Wind Turbine Step-Up Transformers, Collector Step-Up Transformers, and Dynamic VAR Compensation Systems Transformers for wind energy.
@J0Gu7 LOL!
@rohde42 i didnt either
Wow, glad my turbine has electromagnetic braking. That’s spectacular isn’t it.
WOW!!!!
FAIL
oh my god!!!
poor windmill :’(
well, back to oil………….
O o O….. them blade r sharp.
Good thing it wasn’t nuclear.
Stuck running wide open… Brake failure… I didn’t know Toyota made Wind Turbines!
Yo i have a video of some SAWHEET explosions on my channel if your interested, and some other videos
@JimmyLipp My aunt actually knows him.
Damn, can you imagine a 60 ft turbine blade rocketing towards you out of the sky?!
@SirCliveCalculator the tips of the windmill are going at 600+ mph because of a brake failure. Then because it broke the sound barrier, one of the tips disintegrated, which unbalanced the other 2 and then they started wabling and cut off the main support
This was on another video… I think but on the other one trees were nearby… IT HIT A TREE.
be careful
You hear a click as an explosion happens at the base of the structure…
@eraserMMX or that oil rig that just blew up last week
What a colossal waste that is. It’s pretty scary if those are close to any homes.
These are just too big, too much. 7% of all the electricity is lost in transmission. Wasteful. The same raw materials and labor should go to putting smaller rooftop wind turbines at the point of use. Then the 7% for the life of the equipment will be saved, used. Look at my videos of wind power, it’s a far better approach than these big wind farms. Peace.
Eco friendly
That’s why we in America use GE, not your cheap Danish models. haha, just joking.
sure it self destructed, but think of how much electricity it was making the moment before impact!
@preludex4xlife Vestas, with a marked share of 28%, the biggest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, made 40m rotor blades (not diameter) when TPI was still sucking on mama’s tit, and they’ve already made one with rotor blades longer than 52m too – so you won’t be the first to make those either. The V112 – 3.0 MW has a diameter of 122m and three rotor blades of 54,6m each.