The Expo had so many attractions, it would be virtually impossible to list them all. Most of the display booths in the Expo were devoted to the traditional horizontal axis wind turbines. I spent 2 full days there and still didn’t come close to seeing it all. It really opened my eyes to some of [...]
This will be my last week on strictly VAWT’s. A quick lesson on the two basic types of VAWT’s. The first type is called the “lift-based” turbines. These turn faster than the speed of the wind due to aerodynamic design. The second basic type is “drag-based” turbines. The blades, cups, paddles or some type of [...]
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Last week I wrote briefly about Nick Blitterswyk of Urban Green Energy. One of Nick’s Vertical Axis Wind Turbine designs, nicknamed “eddy” was the focus of my article. I had several emails asking about the nickname given to his 600 watt rated VAWT so I asked Nick this week how they came up with the [...]
Happy day after Memorial Day. Hope you had as good a Memorial Day as me and my family. One of my “out of town” brothers and sis’n law stopped in for a visit. Only in this country, through all of our fallen heroes, we celebrate them with Memorial Day. Enjoyed the visit bro and sis’n [...]