I thought this looked rather good anyone have an informed view?
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...e-wind-energy?ref=discovery&term=wind turbine
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...e-wind-energy?ref=discovery&term=wind turbine
Ok so first off, I think you've got bigger fish to fry if your kids / pets are getting in the location of a traditional wind turbine, ie. a roof or a massive 20m tall pole.
Secondly, wind energy is a multi-billion pound industry with billions upon billions poured in to R&D yet these kickstarter guys have somehow managed to beat that industry with something that looks like a bin?
The only flaw I can see in my logic is that somehow there's a lack of development budgets in domestic machines as opposed to commercial units, but that is a big if.
I'm not sold and frankly I don't see this going anywhere.
The point of the Kickstarter has been to raise money to finish development. We've gotten our prototype as far as we can, but we need experienced engineers to carry it the rest of the way. As I just mentioned to someone else, the plan is to turn it over to a local university to finish development and produce their own data.
Average wind speed here is 5 m/s, on that basis the unit would produce, on average ~400 watts, not terrible but not great.
Also the thing looks huge and would need elevating a good height, which I imagine would need planning permission.
I assume you could put two on the roof
How can something "increase wind speed"?
How can something "increase wind speed"?