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A comment on The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015).

Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015) by choeger on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:27AM (#20902544)
With this article being four years old, it is safe to assume they did not meet their economic goals, right?

Nevertheless, technology like this might still be useful in very special environments. As an extreme example, consider Mars. Completely different economical conditions.

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Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015) by kieranmaine on Saturday September 07, 2019 @05:00AM (#20902658)
Curent status of the project - https://vortexbladeless.com/faq/#question10

They still appear to be updating the website at least.

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Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015) by VMG on Saturday September 07, 2019 @05:05AM (#20902666)
wish they would update it to not hijack browser scrolling
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Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015) by zeristor on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:41AM (#20902589)
Mars’s pressure is 1% of Earth’s at sea level, don’t believe the film “The Martian”, which on Earth is tantamount to a vacuum.

Having said that NASA’s going to flying a helicopter drown there, the rotors just have to go around really fast to overcome the lower gravity.

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