Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by einpoklum on Saturday September 07, 2019 @09:57AM
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Betz' law is not a restriction. The challenge isn't extraction of more of the energy. The challenges are:
* Production cost $ * Production cost in terms of resources (e.g. renewable organic materials vs metal, rare earth etc.) * Maintenance $ * Complexity of maintenance * Necessary area / turbine * Necessary area / turbine * Necessary volume / turbine * Noise level * Usability in extreme environmental conditions
... and maybe other things I've missed.
Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by realusername on Saturday September 07, 2019 @09:53PM
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That's still a big restriction, other technologies could have a breakthrough which makes them 10x more efficient, this will never happen with wind turbines.
Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by einpoklum on Monday September 09, 2019 @10:54AM
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We're talking about harnessing wind power. There is no "10x more efficient".
Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by barking on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:13AM
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I don't like them, where I live we had a view like something from the sound of music and now we have 8 turbines in the foreground. Also they are visible from so far away that they have diminished the perceived scale of the landscape.
This is the main reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law. Wind turbines are already very close to max efficiency, the only thing you can do is make them bigger and cheaper.