Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by rapsey on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:30AM
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Yes but you can put more of them in the same space, total cost is likely going to be lower and you can put them into places where turbines can not go. If they manage to make it to market they could be huge.
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Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by tankenmate on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:41AM
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Unfortunately not, it has fundamental issues, the largest of which is that these devices only scale linearly compared to HAWTs which scale at h^2. Putting in more of them won't over come the scaling losses, neither will the cost reductions; even with twice the number of them and with 50% reduction in cost, you're still loosing linearly at 30% to HAWTs h^2 gains.
https://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/21/bladeless-wind-turbine-...