Comments on: Wind Energizer Donut for More Efficient Turbines

By: drbunsen

drbunsen — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:58:34 +0000

If the skirt is transparent it would make a handy greenhouse for plant production. Otherwise it may find market resistance in the case of wind farms on agricultural land, due to the loss of productive land beneath the skirt.

Alternatively, it could be double purposed as a shed or animal shelter.

By: Tom G

Tom G — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:11:35 +0000

Makes sense to me. The only thing I would do differently would be to make the ring movable and less than a full circle.

Shape could be attached [via a collar] to the upper and lower portions of the wind turbine support structure and rotate into the the wind just like the wind turbine itself. A low cost composite structure should do the job.

By: Jos Conil

Jos Conil — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:34:15 +0000

A good initiative and good improvement. The major problem with wind power is the high capital and maintenance costs and the low power output which makes it commercially uninteresting. So any improvement in the technology is a great news.

The future of clean power is both bright and bleak at the same time.

It is bright because many alternatives are coming up the world over. The emerging picture presents a decentralized,demand responsive ,context sensitive and multiple technology scenario.

But it is bleak because we don’t have an integrated approach to the harnessing of renewable resources and natural phenomena.

We are yet to evolve a holistic,integrated and long-term efficiency based system of evaluation, funding and patronage of these alternate energy systems, which can accelerate the growth and scope of this sector to the level of commercial viability by which it can replace the traditional sources of energy.