T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Low cost wind turbine

Monday, November 28, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Low cost wind turbine

Well there was the famous cat of "Water World" (movie), that had the 3 bladed vertical axis wind turbine, that had the mast as vertical "axis". I don't know whether this was a working model or just a movie prop, but it looked operational enough.

Rob on Linda

--- On Mon, 11/28/11, Mark Lockley <lockleymark1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Mark Lockley <lockleymark1@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Low cost wind turbine
To: "electricboats@yahoogroups.com" <electricboats@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, November 28, 2011, 4:13 AM

Hi

Anyone on a vessel here mounted or used a vertical axis wind turbine ? i understand the vibration and noise is way less than the normal types found on boats

any input ??

mark

From: Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 28 November 2011, 10:55
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Low cost wind turbine

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:11:13PM -0800, exp30002 wrote:
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> I guess there are the so called rotor ships:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rotorship_Alcyone_in_harbour.jpg

Those don't produce any electric power; they're an alternate way to use
the wind. I heard about them many years ago; Cousteau claimed 4-5 times
the efficiency over a Marconi rig, and as I dimly recall, the numbers
supported that.

> http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/1021/Items/T307_1_section31.html

Yep, that's it. Glad to know the old brain still keeps some semblance of
accurate data for things like this. :)

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Ben Okopnik
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