WindPylon
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- drudge
What do you think to this idea?
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/W…
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- Nairn0
I've read this question, raised in the NewScientist, or some other such rag, over the past few months.
I think the concept was undermined by height requirements and inability oif the unit to rotate to maximise wind usage, but this may have been under the assumption that the rotor would be a traditional, horizontal mount. I can't see why it wouldn't work with an internal, vertically-mounted rotor, as I think you imply. I've also got a feeling that electricity pylons are specifically built in less windy areas, which would make sense - they'd be more expensive to build and maintain if they trailed a mountain ridge.
I'll try and dig out the article.
- rasko40
I'm amazed they dont have more turbines in the states, because they dont seem to mind the landscape being scarred by fucking great billboards selling everything from bibles, guns, or telling you where the local sex shop is.
- Nairn0
The same could be said for most western countries, rasko, bar the bit about bibles, guns and sex shops :)
As it is, the US has the 3rd largest production of energy from wind sources, after Germany and Spain. All the more amazing considering those liberal pinko faggot environmental hippies don't have hugely powerful lobby and interest groups supporting them.
ps. Some dinky images of wind power speeds across the world.. http://www.stanford.edu/group/ef…