This vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) uses five 3” PVC pipes cut in half for blades rotating on three kids bicycle wheels to spin an Ametek 38 volt motor or a wind blue alternator.The whole ...

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There are two basic types of wind turbines: horizontal-axis and vertical-axis. Horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) have a two or three blade rotor that rotates about a horizontal axis. The rotor is ...

Wind turbines are necessary for ensuring society’s sustainable future, but they still have a recycling problem. Decommissioned installations are destined for landfills in many cases, while the ...

Vertical-axis turbines that can pump 1.5 kW of power into your solar battery bank or feed it to the grid cost less than $500.

A 100-foot wind turbine now dominates the skyline of Jackie Armstrong and Gary Levinson’s 80-acre Iowa property. Bought by them and installed over two weeks in the summer of 2023, the turbine ...

Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard. It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. Between last September and this March, it will become the final ...

Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more ...

The world's biggest storms, which whip the high seas into a frenzy or flatten buildings on land, have long daunted wind farm developers ... working on a turbine with tall, vertical blades that ...

Wind turbine technicians, also known as wind techs, are the professionals in charge of inspecting and maintaining wind turbines. That means that most of their days are spent way up high in a ...

[Faroun] sent in his updated vertical wind turbine. After running his previous ... The new one, dubbed V8 is made mainly from PVC and an Amatek DC motor. His goal was to produce 100 watts at ...