For those who asked here is the link to the company that holds the windbelt patents apparently….
If you look at the one meter grids they developed and read the info it is clear they see this as scalable technology. Someone said the noise alone would keep people from using these on boats, and maybe that relates to the “humdinger” name. Who knows….maybe it is possible to tune the strips to play musical cords, etc. Guess you could meter current flow and have it calibrated to measure wind speed as a trivial side benefit. Maybe you could put a set of electrically powered dampers on each strip and wire them to a key board for actuation and have a wind powered instrument of a new type. Probably be weak in the lower register though…? Seems like there are a lot of things you could experiment with using windbelts…like how many and how close they can be arranged to make a one meter cube of windbelts?? That would be a new approach to “power density”, or put a windbelt in one of those Bernoulli (sp?) funnels that speeds up fluid velocity as it narrows.
I want one just to play with!!
Regards, SSK
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