@glenreddy1435
I worked on these designs 18 years ago and still have the drawings and papers, put together by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. And yes , we stacked one on top of another on each corner of a building.
@guringai
The missing information is what's the average daily output in kilowatt hours? In a given average daily wind speed. & How much do these things cost?
@Thebes_S
Because it can harness energy from a greater range of directions, surely that means there is more time during the day where it will be producing power? that sounds important too
@glenreddy1435
Project I worked on in the Fraunhofer institute in Germany: Regarding design: if you imagine a large commercial tin of food, each stacked on top of each other, all the way to the top, of each corner of a large multi storey building, inside each tin are sails, spinning round and around, something like the signs you'd see outside shops years ago or like the ones on top of refrigerator vehicles. Each floor, ten on each corner, 40 per floor, providing all the electricity required for each floor, these are the designs that I worked on. Especially designed for cities like New York, because of the wind and corrosion created by grid design cities. Designed not to require outside electrical installation all internal off the grid.
@daniel_77.
These projects always takes years and years to actually be more viable, cheaper, and popular
@jaspermcjasper3672
So this turban works in urbine settings.
@happyvirus6590
Did someone else think it's stackable?
@timmyfriend8008
Yeah … but no. Their website wasn’t updated since 2023 and their About Us page is blank😅
@mhandschuh6166
On the plus side, high saturation of these little guys would decrease gust speeds
@AndreVanKammen
Some questions come to mind: What's the power output? How much noise do they make? How far do they need to be from eachother?
@user-has-not-named-yet
Now we need something like this but for hurricanes
@thesignman704
And it will remain a symbol because, just like all other wind powered forms of energy generation - it's inefficient.
@asuramaru6931
"It's aesthetic" - The navy justifying guided artillery shell that costs 1 million per shot
@Ed-sx6ze
I love the design, larger designs if applied as a artistic sculpture would be visually pleasing and if meshed with an efficient gearing and generating mechanism could have a dramatic impact providing power in a meshed network . Bravo ! Well done.
@mik99D
Current wind turbines are created by the worlds best engineers. The other ones are not used as they are less efficient
@totallynotdelinquent5933
A good idea for these would be as power-generating street lights. It can power the lights themselves, and give excess back into the grid.
@Morbazan125
Energy generation aside I can’t think of a single variation of renewables that I didn’t like the aesthetics of.
@superminer1993
I'm not a proponent for wind energy, but I can see this actually looking pretty good in cities and just across America in general
@peterkrump9051
At the end it sounds like he is saying it will work because its pretty.
@flutieflambert