----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 7:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:The PickensPlan website
> Only by evaporative cooling. > Ambient temperature doesn't change just > because the air is moving. What about funneling followed by expansion? > I think a better solution will be vertical axis wind turbines such as > this small one: > > http://www.urbangreenenergy.com/turbine.php?id=4 > > They don't suffer from the instabilities of the presently dominant > cantilevered designs. > > Terry I am very interested in those too, but I hear they have their own scaling problems. Still I would like to see more R&D money spent on them. Harry > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Harry Veeder <hvee...@ncf.ca> wrote: > > It might be interesting to imagine how wind power might harnessed > > > > without rotating blades of any kind. > > > > eg. If wind can have a chilling effect, could this effect > > > > be harnessed to generate a significant amount of electrical power? > > > > Harry > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net> > > > > Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:51 pm > > > > Subject: Re: [Vo]:The PickensPlan website > > > >> > >> On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:18 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > >> > >> > I wonder if increasing the mass of the blades would help by > >> adding/ > >> > increasing > >> > the flywheel effect? It would certainly even out the very short > >> > wind gusts, and > >> > that would decrease the criticality of response time of other > >> > systems. Of course > >> > heavy blades would be harder to get moving initially, and hence > >> > would probably > >> > be better suited to higher wind environments. > >> > >> > >> It would make braking more difficult and thus decrease the shut > >> down > >> velocity or increase brake cost and mass. Also, I think a lot is > >> invested in keeping blades light, as it reduces the centrifugal > >> strain on them. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> Horace Heffner > >> http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > >> > >> < BR>> > >> > >> > >
