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Hairyloon

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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 15 6:07 pm Post subject: Shell Shaped Windmills

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A super-efficient and completely soundless wind turbine developed by a Dutch company aims to enable every household to generate its own wind energy.

Officially unveiled today, the shell-shaped Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine offers much better efficiency compared with conventional designs. Its shape, modelled after the perfectly logarithmic spiral of a Nautilus shell, allows the turbine to always position itself at the best angle towards the direction of the wind, achieving efficiency which is about 80 per cent of what is theoretically possible.

https://eandt.theiet.org/news/2014/may/wind-turbine-Liam-urban.cfm

dpack

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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 15 5:38 pm Post subject:
tidy propeller types are not ideal

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 15 9:24 pm Post subject:
The urban environment is not suitable for turbines. Its is too turbulent until you get so high you wont get permission. Dont confuse turbulence with changes of wind direction.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 15 9:26 pm Post subject:
An interesting design, which may not be susceptible to turbulence in the same way as bladed turbines are. Testing will tell.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 10:01 am Post subject:
Looks interesting, and if it can cope with turbulence it may take wind generated power forward a long way.

RichardW

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 2:22 pm Post subject:
Remember the roof mounted turbine that B&Q were selling? They too promised to work on a roof in an urban area. Ended up using more energy than they made.

crofter

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 4:40 pm Post subject:
It is difficult to judge the scale of the photo, but would be interesting to know what size they are. 1.5kw is a useful contribution.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 4:47 pm Post subject:
1.5m diameter. https://dearchimedes.com/pdf/PP_022_final.pdf data comes from this poster. The original link is eighteen months old. I assume they work, or don't, by now.

crofter

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 5:47 pm Post subject:

Thanks Nick.

From that same link

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1.Under 2 m/s condition, even though the generating electric power may be not so sufficient, this Archimedes
spiral wind turbine can produce the electric power

It would be useful to have a figure for the "not so sufficient" power.

found this:

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at 15 m/s results in 1500W
costs about 3500 euros

15m/s is force 7 (near gale)

Nick

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 6:20 pm Post subject:
If you track back to the home page, there's a ton of links. Might be stuff in there. Clearly, it's manufacturer data which, while often accurate, is almost always an incomplete, biased picture. However, it's there.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 6:29 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

If you track back to the home page, there's a ton of links. Might be stuff in there. Clearly, it's manufacturer data which, while often accurate, is almost always an incomplete, biased picture. However, it's there.

There's a rather skeptical blog post about the claims. I had a bit of a google when HL first posted up the link but couldn't find out much meaningful info apart from the various articles from 2014 that seem to refer to the same press release.

The link in HL's post seems to contains a bit of 'spin', but I like the idea and all the small wind turbines I've seen have been rather noisy and not having something looking like a common wind turbine would be useful.

RichardW

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 10:18 pm Post subject:

crofter wrote:

It is difficult to judge the scale of the photo, but would be interesting to know what size they are. 1.5kw is a useful contribution.

A normal turbine would need to be about 3 to 4m across.

You can only extract X% of the energy out of the wind or the air flow will stall. Then you have to take into account the Betz limit which reduces further the amount converted to elec.

crofter

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 15 11:51 pm Post subject:
They claim 80% of Betz' limit on the original link

dpack

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 15 1:26 am Post subject:
i wonder if a wet version would work in moving water

Hairyloon

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 15 9:28 am Post subject:

crofter wrote:

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1.Under 2 m/s condition, even though the generating electric power may be not so sufficient, this Archimedes
spiral wind turbine can produce the electric power

It would be useful to have a figure for the "not so sufficient" power.

I had read that to be badly translated.

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