Stormblade Turbine is More Efficient, Quietly Neighbor-Friendly January 03, 2007
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Nobody
wants a wind turbine in their backyard, because the things are noisy
and kill birds. But now inventors at Stormblade Turbine might have made
the windmill a neighborhood-friendly device, solving that noise problem
while doubling the efficiency of current turbines. This weird-looking
jet engine-on-a-stick is somehow able to accelerate wind into its
blades that are nestled safely in their enclosure, concentrating the
breeze while keeping the birds and bats out of harm's way.
The prototype operates quietly in wind speeds from 7mph to 120mph, twice the range of conventional wind turbines, plus it's a lot smaller and easier to maintain. Install two of them next to each other and they'll look like a pair of eyes peering into the wind. Meanwhile, you'll be looking at selling power back to the electric company.
Silent wind turbine is ultra-efficient [Engineer Live, via treehugger]
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
Comments
An poorly made Photoshop hoax. C'mon, an jetengine on a windmill tower?
Not all current windmills are ugly, birds sometimes fly in to all sorts of things from plate glass windows to power stations, not just windmills in particular. Don't need it, current turbines are fine.
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Thank you Jack, and just what are YOU doing about climate change?? ;-)