BEAUTY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY; THE BLADELESS WIND TURBINE
One of the best things to happen to humanity is the optimization of Renewable Energy, because of it's Eco-friendly properties and it's 24/7 availability; it seems the perfect solutions to combating the dwindling Earth's resources(e.g Fossil Fuels) and weapon against Global warming...Imagine all the decades of Blowing winds and Sunshine going to waste?
Wind is one of the Most Abundant Natural Elements on Earth after Water and Sunshine, hence wind energy is in affluence just like it's counterparts Solar and Hydro Energy. It has become a legit source of energy over decades since the days of Windmills and over the years since much more advance Wind Turbines have been produced and used which boosted the Industry record to $99.5 Billion investment Globally in the year 2014.
Challenges to Traditional Wind Turbines
A very huge challenge to this Technology is the Transportation of it's enormous components(Turbines/Blades, Generators, Gearbox) and the colossal towers to installation sites, this are about 100 Tons components high up 100 meters in the sky- extremely heavy to lift and requiring special trucks for the transporting process on narrow roads.
Cost of maintenance of this Gigantic components and various accidents/mishaps that had claimed lot of Engineers, Technicians and commuters had cut the efficiency benefits of this traditional wind Turbines.
"VORTEX"
Finally a blade-less wind Turbine has been designed to tackle most of this disadvantages, it will not kill birds, nor any human falling off the huge pylons neither would it require Thousands of Dollars to manufacture and Transport.
Principle Of Operation:
The invention is called "Vortex" with various capacities in development stage(4 Kilo Watts, 100 Watts and a Mega Watts) now and it is designed to generate Electricity by Oscillating in the Wind. Vibration or Vorticity; Spinning motion of air or other fluids is the mode of it's operations. When air/wind passes the cylindrical turbines, it shears off the down-wind side of the cylinder in a s spinning whirl pool or Vortex, which then exerts forces on the cylinder making it vibrate.
Kinetic energy of this oscillating cylinder is converted to electricity through a linear generator similar to those used to harness wave energy. This is a noiseless processes as there is no moving parts and this will significantly reduce manufacturing and maintenance needs hence improving costs and efficiency.
If you have a common propeller-type wind turbine, you have a big area swept by blades. But with Vortex Bladeless; you just have a pole and many of it in a limited space- Martin Hansen; A wind Energy specialist at the Technical University Denmark.
A brain work of a Spanish Technology Startup "VortexBladeless" which aims at generating power 40% less than the cost of Energy from Traditional(conventional) wind turbines. A promising venture with a whole lot of skeptics and the company's plan to release a much larger Megawatt Device in 2018 to counter any skepticism.
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This is important stuff, my brother is a biologist and they monitor mortality of birds of prey. Wind turbines are a serious threat to the birds, especially those that are already endangered (large migratory birds of prey). Often the bird marked with GPS chip dies, and when they go to retrieve chip, guess what, it's right under the wind turbine. And the problem is mostly underreported because turbine technicians remove bird carcasses to avoid bad publicity. So I'm all for this technology, it cannot come soon enough.
Wow, i was doing a research on the many negative effects of Conventional Wind Turbines and i read about endangering Birds. This Vortex is yet to implements larger Capacity but lets hope things hasten up brother, thanks for the input.
I wish this technology would become operational in our part of the world. A great piece.
Great post for the conservation of nonrenewable resources and very helpful to control the burning issues of global warming. You are wonderful, Great job. Wish you a very beautiful time ahead.
Awesome post malone good message to our society we have to use our wind resources instead of fossils fuels @oluwoleolaide
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I like what Vortex is trying to do, but we are still very much better off running a solar system which is dependent on sun than wind. Wind turbines work best at windy location.
The principle of its operation is aerodynamics, making most wish they paid more attention to that physics class. Lol
When you say we, that is an Unofficial Generalization.
You must have forgotten not every one has more Sunshine like Africa and some other Continents, so we are not better of with Solar; it is best to have alternatives to Solar for those in Icy/Windy regions.
Yeah, it is a generalisation of sorts. I'm only making a case for Nigeria. You would agree we have more sun than wind in most part of the country. Also, a friend ran his MSc on the comparative study of wind and solar power in Nigeria and Sun came up on top. It is a great technology, but given an option to chose between wind and solar, I'd pick solar without thinking, if the use place is Nigeria.
Well, this ain't about "Just One Country"
I know. We are really saying the same thing in different words. It is a great technology. But in terms of efficiency, in Nigeria, solar will come up on top. This is generally speaking, some location may have Vortex on top too. I'm just a 100% Nigeria who likes to think Nigeria in everything. I think I may be a little obsessed. Lol.
nice piece and a good and helpful information for our society
Thanks for reading
you are welcome
really like the technology Olu
Me too my dear friend.