I ran across another short one this morning with a similar small group of engineers in Scotland. Their premise for coming up with a small 1KW unit fits my paradigm for a systems approach to Alt Energy generation and distribution.

What he explains in the beginning gives a lot of the good reasons for VAWT designs to answer some of C-Bags questions. I particularly enjoyed the testing of the Roll, Pitch, Yaw issues for ocean based generation although no real numbers were given they seemed to be pleased with the results at acute angle of attack.

Additionally they designed and built a wind tunnel for testing, something I have experience designing a building. Although on a cheap and cheerful budget all the primary elements were designed in for this kind of testing and particularly liked their flow straighteners cheap and cheerful style.



~PJ