Re:The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)
by einpoklum on Saturday September 07, 2019 @09:51AM
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While I also doubt their claims - the price you want to look at is :
(purchase + installation) / average_life_span + maintenance per time unit
So, even at triple the cost it could still be worthwhile.
A 100W conventional turbine also only has a couple of moving parts, won't kill birds and is effectively silent. I'm unsure on wether these claims are still true as the device scales up. A device 100m or so tall will have a fast velocity at the tip perhaps as much as 50m/s at a few Hz which is similar to the blade tip speed of a conventional turbine thus having similar potential to kill birds and make noise.