Renewable Energy: Wind Power


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A Dorky Engineering Student explains how a homebuilt wind turbine create usable Electrical Power

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25 Responses to “Renewable Energy: Wind Power”

  1. HUCKLES42 on August 30th, 2010 2:32 pm

    WHERE DO YOU BUY THE PARTS TO BUILD THISE TURBINE IF YOU DONT MIND TELLING ME. OR IF YOU WILLING TO SELL ME ONE PUT TO GET THERE THANKS EMAIL ME AT BLUEMA1968@GMAIL.COM THANKYOU AGAIN . FOR READING MY POST

  2. henrykay01 on August 30th, 2010 2:33 pm

    I invented a breakthrough source of energy, which contradicts the law of conservation of energy. I have a PROOF that there are electrodynamic phenomena which contradict the law of energy conservation. It will cost about $1200 to make a 6 kW generator in mass production. Value of the energy produced yearly about $5400. I am looking for $300 000 for a prototype and for $3M for patents.
    H. Tomasz Grzybowski
    tel. +48-512-933-540

  3. henrykay01 on August 30th, 2010 3:01 pm

    I invented a breakthrough source of energy, which contradicts the law of conservation of energy. I have a PROOF that there are electrodynamic phenomena which contradict the law of energy conservation. It will cost about $1200 to make a 6 kW generator in mass production. Value of the energy produced yearly about $5400. I am looking for $300 000 for a prototype and for $3M for patents.
    H. Tomasz Grzybowski
    tel. +48-512-933-540

  4. kieranmullen2 on August 30th, 2010 3:24 pm

    Cool project! Instead of batteries to store power which wear out why not try fuel cells. Also from your video it sounded like you had AC to DC to AC which seems pretty lossy. Better to do it just DC to AC.

  5. jsjMovies on August 30th, 2010 4:02 pm

    Were did you get the dc batteries?? And the price of the batteries also, if that’s possible? Thanks, please reply.

  6. mitchyd89 on August 30th, 2010 4:34 pm

    It is not 120 Volts amplitude or 240V peak to peak. It is 120 Volts RMS which is 120V divided by the square root of two. It is actually about 170 Volts peak to peak. Good Vid anyway.

  7. curatrix2008 on August 30th, 2010 5:18 pm

    @GreenEngineer07 YOUTUBE: helix wind self-destruct

  8. curatrix2008 on August 30th, 2010 5:56 pm

    YOUTUBE: helix wind self-destruct

  9. starshock01 on August 30th, 2010 6:43 pm

    :16 theres something in the sky!….cool turbine

  10. henrykay01 on August 30th, 2010 7:39 pm

    I invented a breakthrough energy source which violates the law of energy conservation. I have a PROOF that there are electrodynamic phenomena violating the law of energy conservation. I am looking for $30000 for a prototype and for $3M for patents. In mass production it will cost $1200 to make a 15 kW generator, value of energy produced YEARLY about $10000.
    H. Tomasz Grzybowski
    tel. +48-512-933-540

  11. Thomas3901 on August 30th, 2010 7:51 pm

    A small wind turbine can be put in every house hold in America, they can be manufactured locally with small business or People can build it themselves…Huge Wind Turbines must be done by larger corporations, it takes alot to put up huge wind turbines…It can be done, we must create more manfacturing in America and mass produce it…It will bring the cost down…Solar and Wind can lesson the dependence on Oil by 25%.

  12. DeathNote123321 on August 30th, 2010 8:47 pm

    @DraeneiGirlsHotMuch lol at your name. grow the fuck up.

  13. Prpiney on August 30th, 2010 9:44 pm

    this guy is a smart simple person …lol @ good and bad power

  14. benjeicher on August 30th, 2010 10:26 pm

    How does the direction of the wind affect its consistency? Likewise, does the direction of the blade (spinning one way and then another) affect the output-diminish its consistency?

  15. walter0bz on August 30th, 2010 10:34 pm

    i heard small scale turbines are no where near as efficient as the huge ones, is that true?
    still every little helps.

  16. fingerspies on August 30th, 2010 11:16 pm

    I have built a non wind turbine belt conveyor turbine cog driver it may sound a bit complicated but it’s very similar to having a dog and still barking yourself abit pointless but don’t be deterred alot of people spend hours and hours a day building absolute worthless rubbish and you never know by some miracle something might look good or even work, but please don’t get too optimistic it might lead to much dissapointment :)

  17. amuck6786 on August 30th, 2010 11:58 pm

    sir, could you please tell me the name of the software in yur video, you used to design yur wind turbine.

    thanks!

  18. DraeneiGirlsHotMuch on August 31st, 2010 12:25 am

    go buy a better voice fag.

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  20. GreenEngineer07 on August 31st, 2010 1:13 am

    This is a surface Permanent magnet machine of the axial flux variety. They are affectionately referred to as “pancake” machines in some circles. Let me know if that is what you were looking for. Or check out my wind turbine destroyed video for a closer look. I would also like to refer you to Hugh Piggots work he is the best in the business. Thank you for the polite inquiry.

  21. GreenEngineer07 on August 31st, 2010 1:49 am

    Hugh Piggot has a set of build instructions for a turbine much like mine. He charges a fair price I would highly recommend looking into it.

  22. bappaditya3 on August 31st, 2010 1:53 am

    sir, I would be grateful if you could tell me the type of generator used- I mean whether its a synchronous m/c or an induction m/c and why? thanks in advance.

  23. heavyweather on August 31st, 2010 2:09 am

    Nice use of Rhino ;)
    Is there any more information or built tutorial of that turbine somewhere?
    I would like to built a vertical turbine…would the same generator work?

  24. rjzeran on August 31st, 2010 2:25 am

    Nice extention cord, POS. That is what you have here. POS

  25. turkmillet on August 31st, 2010 2:49 am

    On every user: Please vote BAD for this fuckin Video. This fuckin Wind Turbine doesn’t work!!!

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