Sentences with phrase «axis turbine design»

The company's V2 turbines are based on the work of the Finnish engineer Savonius, who invented his eponymous Savonius wind turbine in 1922, but according to Venger, their V2 design is a big step forward from previous iterations of the unique vertical axis turbine design.

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Another key difference in ESRU's design is that the turbine has two rotors attached — one in front of the other that turn in opposite directions on a single axis.

Although the efficacy of small wind turbines, especially vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), is often debated, and the designs dismissed as not being worth their cost or manufacturing resources, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to improve them or apply them to niche uses.

(I have a design I call the Cooke AquAero Motor which is a vertical axis, cyclo - turbine with 2 - 3 independently articulating blades that actually can extract power through 70 % of it's rotation, though the efficiency is around 28 - 36 %.)

Designing and building the new McCamley vertical axis wind turbine took decades, but it may have been well worth it, as the company believes their innovative design could revolutionize urban wind power.

This Homestead House is designed to function off of the standard utility grid but it would be able to generate its own electricity with photovoltaic cells and with a small vertical axis wind turbine.

XCO2's design is a vertical axis turbine (see a couple more examples here and here), which they claim is virtually silent and vibration free.

Cheshire - based Hutchinson designed the 18 metre - high vertical axis wind turbine located near Portland Marina in Dorset — the venue for the Olympic Games sailing events.

They also claim the design overcomes many of the inherent problems associated with large horizontal axis turbines: One reason [for problems] is that the weight of the turbine blades becomes prohibitive.

One of the most intriguing is the Swedish Hexicon design, with a series of turbines mounted on a hexagon - shaped lattice platform, which can rotate around a central axis to align with the wind direction.

Most existing tidal currents devices have been based on horizontal axis propeller - type designs, much like wind turbines, mounted on fixed towers or on the sea - bed, sometimes with ducts to enhance the flow.

4 Issue 4) that «offshore vertical - axis wind turbines offer the potential for a break through in offshore wind energy availability and reduced life cycle costs due to their design characteristics of few moving parts and the sitting of the generator at the base level potentially allowing large - scale direct drive.