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Implux and Windgate Wind Turbines for Low Breezes.

08/13/2011 9:50 AM

There were recent articles on gizmag concerning wind turbines windgate and implux .

www.gizmag.com/earthtronics-honeywell-windgate-wind-turbine/11990

and

www.gizmag.com/implux-wind-turbine/18625/- .

Would there be an advantage if you could mount the Windgate low velocity concept, with suitable thrust bearings as a vertical axis generator,

together with, that is on top of, a mounting designed to scoop up the wind from multiple directions as in the implux version.?

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Re: Implux and Windgate Wind Turbines for Low Breezes.

08/13/2011 11:09 PM

I suspect neither of these concepts is very efficient, whether individually or combined.

(We haven't heard recently from joe.fordham, either.)

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Re: Implux and Windgate Wind Turbines for Low Breezes.

08/14/2011 5:07 AM

Sorry about the links - appear to have changed.

Please Google Honeywell Windgate and implux wind to see the sites.

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Re: Implux and Windgate Wind Turbines for Low Breezes.

08/14/2011 9:57 AM

Conceptually, mounting a rotating turbine type windmill on a building is going to be difficult, because the building itself is going to cause turbulence, and the mill generation becomes very inefficient. They vibrate and make a lot of noise. Most mechanical engineers and architects can find only small loading acceptable, hence small mills and small production, made smaller by the poor performance. Google successful building mounted wind generators. Almost all colleges.

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Re: Implux and Windgate Wind Turbines for Low Breezes.

08/26/2011 11:54 AM

The ducted turbines (Honeywell type) have been shown to be a total failure by many parties. This is not the Honeywell we know but someone they licensed the name to - maybe a useless nephew?

The Implux turbine is from someone's nightmare.

For wind see Paul Gipe's site www.wind-works.org

He gets tired of explaining why the science behind these loony schemes is fake. There şs a load of information on the site.

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Re: Implux and Windgate Wind Turbines for Low Breezes.

08/26/2011 1:21 PM

Thanks for the feedback.

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