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
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From: Horace Heffner <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:51 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:The PickensPlan website >> On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:18 PM, [email protected] 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>>
>
>
