Nonetheless, some engineers have tweaked
the vertical turbine designs to improve their efficiency and cost - effectiveness.
Not exact matches
There's a hint of modern Maserati to the expansive grille with its large
vertical strakes - a
design intended to direct as much air as possible to the
turbine - and we see a touch of Lincoln in the body - width horizontal rear light unit.
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.
Seems it has hit on an optimum
design compromise between
vertical and horizontal bladed
turbines.
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.
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.
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.