So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

But you said your energy source is airflow, right? Which means that you're always going to be limited to extracting all of the kinetic energy. Even if you managed to do that I think your claims are dubious - current turbines already operate pretty close the the Betz limit, the major losses then come from storage of the energy which in a 3rd world situation would be made even worse.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

You're probably dumbing it down too much but as you've just described the concept it breaks the laws of thermodynamics.

But you said your energy source is airflow, right? Which means that you're always going to be limited to extracting all of the kinetic energy. Even if you managed to do that I think your claims are dubious - current turbines already operate pretty close the the Betz limit, the major losses then come from storage of the energy which in a 3rd world situation would be made even worse.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

You're probably dumbing it down too much but as you've just described the concept it breaks the laws of thermodynamics.

But you said your energy source is airflow, right? Which means that you're always going to be limited to extracting all of the kinetic energy. Even if you managed to do that I think your claims are dubious - current turbines already operate pretty close the the Betz limit, the major losses then come from storage of the energy which in a 3rd world situation would be made even worse.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

You're probably dumbing it down too much but as you've just described the concept it breaks the laws of thermodynamics.

But you said your energy source is airflow, right? Which means that you're always going to be limited to extracting all of the kinetic energy. Even if you managed to do that I think your claims are dubious - current turbines already operate pretty close the the Betz limit, the major losses then come from storage of the energy which in a 3rd world situation would be made even worse.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

You're probably dumbing it down too much but as you've just described the concept it breaks the laws of thermodynamics.

But you said your energy source is airflow, right? Which means that you're always going to be limited to extracting all of the kinetic energy. Even if you managed to do that I think your claims are dubious - current turbines already operate pretty close the the Betz limit, the major losses then come from storage of the energy which in a 3rd world situation would be made even worse.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

You're probably dumbing it down too much but as you've just described the concept it breaks the laws of thermodynamics.

But you said your energy source is airflow, right? Which means that you're always going to be limited to extracting all of the kinetic energy. Even if you managed to do that I think your claims are dubious - current turbines already operate pretty close the the Betz limit, the major losses then come from storage of the energy which in a 3rd world situation would be made even worse.

Fair. Having re-read through it seems like you're going for a small scale, super-efficient wind turbine which I can absolutely see uses for. I think the problem you'll run into though is scaling it for the kind of applications you spoke about earlier.

So some quick calculations tell me that taking a mini fridge size area ( radius 250mm ) and 10 mph wind then you could only extract a maximum of 11W with no losses whatsoever. So it'd still be usable but you'll have to run it constantly and store the energy for usage.

If you can bump the wind speed up to around 50 mph (which you can do even with a wooden wind-tunnel type set up connected to a window) then it boosts the maximum possible up to 1.34 kW which is much more in the useful range.

So yeah, I can actually believe that it would work for small-scale stuff quite nicely. The only final concern I would have is the energy required to manufacture and maintain it. A lot of badly placed solar panels never actually pay out their initial energy deficit, for example.

Anyway, good luck with it and I hope t oread more in the future.

Who the fuck likes Lars? If you have played drums for 5 minutes you would know he is the assclown of the drum world..