This sounds a little too good to be true. Anybody know more? Udhay
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/21/722578/-Free,-Renewable-Energy-Available-Everywhere-But-the-U.S. Free, Renewable Energy Available Everywhere But the U.S. by Dry Observer Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 12:22:21 AM PDT Three days ago, an invention (patent pending) went into public domain everywhere in the world except the United States -- a design for a wind-powered energy system that can tap at least 60 times as much energy as the United States Renewable Energy Laboratories states is available in a square meter of wind. The system does this not by some magical process (it is extremely mundane) but apparently by tapping into very large volumes of moving air, as seen in the sails of large sailing ships. 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. And, in case it needs to be repeated, anyone outside of the U.S. can use this design (patent pending in America), to the best of my knowledge, free of charge. And should prove very, very cheap to assemble. (My thanks go out to Dr. Win Wenger, whose original public-domain invention was the seed that inspired this design.) You can conceivably get away with building this system with little more than copper, sailcloth and steel... <SNIP, much much more at the URL> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
