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 ...

The development of the vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT ... are some design features that prevent the generators from functioning as well as HAWTs at harvesting energy. The blades don’t produce ...

Image Credit: InTech To calculate the TSR for a VAWT you need to record the rotational ... are critical references used in the design, manufacture, testing, installation, and maintenance of wind ...

The team suggests two pitch profiles for VAWT blades that result in a 200 percent ... identify optimal pitching kinematics at on- and off-design operating conditions. We obtain two sets of optimal ...

When used with an electrical generator, the rotation of the wind turbine’s blades turns a shaft to produce electricity ... Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT) are low-noise, omni-directional wind ...

Engineers have long known that traditional aerodynamics models, used to design the blades of wind turbines and propellers, ...

Reporting in the journal Thermal Engineering, researchers from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute have now developed a parameter-driven optimization approach to blade design that makes sense ...

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history. By Patricia Leigh Brown In Brandon Ndife’s otherworldly ...

The machine simply feels well built. Despite all that the Razer Blade 16 is packing in, it still feels like a more everyday laptop thanks to the subtle design. It slides right into my backpack ...

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Weyland reflects on his experiences with his mentor (clearly referencing Blade Runner’s Dr. Eldon Tyrell) and how the failures of Tyrell’s Replicants inspired him to design a better ...