One Component Wind Power.
Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Roy Jones in Design, High Tech's Future, Science
How would you like your very own take-it-home apply-it-yourself wind power generator? How about a whole array of them? This is a design that’s just that, take it home, unpack it, screw it into the wall, connect it to whatever battery you’ve got that can hold generated power, and let it rip! This design is made up of blades, the generator, a telescopic shaft (so that the fan can be extended or “away”, electric power plug, and switch. With an array of 15 of these fans, you can power a household of four people for a month. 
Oh my goodness! One of these fans, called “Wind Cubes”, could potentially generate 21.6 kilowatt-hours per month. Times that by fifteen, and you’ve got 324 kw, the same amount the designers of this project note is the amount a family of four uses per month. Seems too perfect!The way these “cubes” work is to be attached to a wall (outside) with three screws, click the switch to activate, and sit back to enjoy the power your mother earth is providing. Multiple cubes can be connected to not only generate more power, but strengthen their collective structure, and the fans can be pulled out or pushed back and away depending on the weather. 
DO WANT, VERY VERY MUCH. Can you imagine it? Free electricity! No wonder this is a Liteon Award winning design this year! Hooray!
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phil
Dec 5th, 2010
So you attach this to a wall? And when the wind changes you just turn the wall into the wind, right? What about the turbulence caused by the wind hitting the wall and blowing in all directions, which will stop the blades? The blades themselves have thick edges, which makes them about as aerodynamic as a brick. You would need a large bank of batteries (charging losses) and an inverter for AC (inverter losses). As far as the Maths, I have no idea how it has been worked out, but one unit must run for ten hours at maximum output to produce 1 kWhr. I hope that “telescopic shaft” is strong, because unles the wind is exactly at 90 degrees to the wall, the loading on the blades will be unequal, and the shaft will be side loaded and therfore very inneficient and liable to stress failure, that is why all wind generators turn into the wind! Dont buy this crap, or you will be very disapointed!
Phil
Electrical Engineer.
Nerf
Dec 6th, 2010
it’s the winner for a design competition, phil. I’ma go out on a limb here and say that this person wasn’t a physics major, to say the least. It’s a cool design, and it’d look cool on a building, but I doubt that it’ll go into production anytime soon.
Uncle B
Dec 11th, 2010
A collective, and communal, co-op approach is best for wind. Large communal systems are currently up and running! Just the description sounds un-American! un-Capitalistic!
Extremely inefficient American home design precludes sustainability of such schemes, and until America catches up with realities of the 21st century, faces real energy costs in lives and dollars and realizes they live far above what they can afford,wind systems will be rejected out of hand – but not by the secretive off-gridders, who hide in the forests and survive using the latest technologies to make life comfortable for themselves!
The Chinese have opted for oil free survival by building thirty reactors for the moment! The also have Nuclear/electric bullet train networks and their infrastructures up and running, producing products for the world markets, oil free, and on veggie and rice diets, to make them even more sustainable! America chooses to maintain its parasite relationship with the Middle East, and OPEC, their hold on America being a financial one.
After the fall of our fiat dollar we will be free to use our Solar, Wind, Wave, Hydro, Tidal, Geothermal and Nuclear, electric energies – once we break from our masters in the Middle East we will be free to live better electrically !
Wood Gas
Dec 27th, 2010
Something like this that was modular and expandable but fit on roof ridges could be more practical. Especially if the roof ridge was perpendicular to the prevailing wind. The upwind roof pitch could work as a concentrator and the downwind pitch as a diffuser which would increase the local wind speed in that region. New construction could have the roof plan optimized for this process. Such an arrangement would not be as efficient as a nice tall tower, but it probably please the neighbors better.
Thopter
Jan 9th, 2011
Don’t mount it on a wall, mount it on some poles in the yard so there’s no wind obstruction.
Vlad
Jan 20th, 2011
A nice idea indeed, but the mounting is just plain stupid. How on earth are you supposed to get the air flowing over the fans mounted on a solid wall?! Makes me wonder if the designer has enough engineering experience to even create a decent wind generator.