Just off the cuff, this sounds much too good to be true:
With it, you should be able to easily reach single-digits
megawatt/hours of power in windspeeds as low as 10
statute-miles-per-hour, or drive a pump with thousands of
horsepower of
kinetic energy in those same winds.
Power is cubic in wind speed; low wind speeds could yield plenty of
torque, but that's why they're suitable for applications such as
water pumping, not power generation.
-Dave
(same goes for hydro: we use kilometer drops in the alps for power
arbitrage. low head power generation is theoretically interesting,
but if one has the vertical and the metallurgy it's much easier to
just use them than to needlessly fight the exponents)
