Screw Generator

yep, you could attach a screw compressor to a windmill and start compressing air, and do whatever you want with the compressed air.

The fiendish "guest" is back. Methinks me smell a bait.

A guest that uses the emoticons, signs off as MC (Mr. Cat?????? (Sorry Dell if it isn't you, but when I first read this I got a whiff of sardines)) and suggests such an out there idea just makes me suspicious.

If this is a genuine request, then I'm sorry for the above comments and my answer to your question follows.

This idea is horrible. Almost every compressor uses induction motors and they make HORRIBLE generators. Screw compressors have significant friction components in them (called seals) that would rob significant power that you try to send back to the generator.

It would be cheaper to buy a decent wind generator than to try to modify a functioning compressor. Hey, just sell the compressor and buy "the real deal" turbine system.

Let's say for example that I take one of such puppies and gear it up

typical guest. . . . . .everybody knows puppies doesn't run the compressor. . . . . . its a squirrel and a squirrel cage

phoenix911

Yes... But why??? You could also modify one to pump water as has been done for ages, but generating electricity with the wind offers endless applications rather than simple pneumatic or hydraulic solutions.

Why, obviously, "Guest" is planning to store air rather than electricity. Energy stored as compressed air is easily converted to other forms of energy by slimply passing it through a gas expander, the energy can drive a generator, pump, gas compressor, sugar cane crusher or any other mechanical drive. It can use the compressed air directly to power a sand blaster, or any other device which can be driven by compressed air.

Of course it is possible to strip the motor off an air compressor and substitute the windmill energy source.

Why not?

Brilliant idea. I can help in the "gearin up" department. Instead using a "some such" as originally proposed, the best off the self solution is a gear -screw speed reduction unit used in reverse. You see, you can buy them in various ratios, inexpensively, in self contained units. You put them in in reverse, and an equally impressive - up to 1:300 speed increase might results. Just imagine how many times more energy you get into those puppies at 300 times higher speeds. You just might blow them by too much energy!!! So full jets ahead for you!!! Experiment!!! And surprise the disbelievers!!!

Holy Wacamoleeeeh! Do sounds good to me then. Hey who know's? We'll be addapting availables machines all over the place. No kidding! Imaging be able to modify some of those olders machines units to make some 'power juice' out of them all. These by modification will be a good thing since it will act somehow as a sustainable proccess and avoid manufacturing from scracth saving even more fabrication energy. And not everything is lost by transforming such unused equipment back to a useful thing again, Hehaaaiih! How that sounds? Hey everything is possible!

Again thanks to all the guys here at CR-4 for the feedback, good deal all....You have the Technology!

Crank that Puppy Up,

MC

Man,

I got a 1000:1 gearbox here you could use. Put 1 hp in th front end and you got lotsa puppies out the back end. No kiddin'.

S.

Wow a worm drive in reverse, this disbeliever has just gotta see that one.

how do you propose to get wind through it? They have a 3 inch opening? If you want to use one of the lowest eff compressors, then use the screw compressor, they suck, pardon the pun.