SniperGaulois
10 kW
A tantalising thing about VAWTs and HAWTs is that there are no comparative measurements of efficiency, it's not a very exact science.
It would be great to test a wide range of futuristic VAWT turbine blade designs, by printing the blades on a 3d printer, and running them through the same windtunnel tests attached to the same 3 phase generator.
can you believe that the price of printing a 12" metal windfoil with 0.04 mm accuracy is about $1.50 only?
It would be nice to have a kind of competition like the X-prize, where everyone sends in a number of propeller designs, pays for printing costs, and the most performant, and most pretty designs get a grand prize of $1 million!
so the cost of printing and testing 100 wind turbine prototypes to test them, would probably be about $500 for 12 inch high prototypes! And there could be variations of the current most performant ones, and radical new designs. It would be great!
Do you think, to compensate for the prototypes being small they should go through a high-pressure wind tunnel, or a tunnel that uses only CO2 or something? Which is heavier? should the most performant be measured by the volume they occupy?
it's something that a crazy person could certainly do with crowd sourced funding, and perhaps it could be an ongoing thing that year by year can continually advance the field of wind generators?
http://3d-printers.toptenreviews.com/
It would be great to test a wide range of futuristic VAWT turbine blade designs, by printing the blades on a 3d printer, and running them through the same windtunnel tests attached to the same 3 phase generator.
can you believe that the price of printing a 12" metal windfoil with 0.04 mm accuracy is about $1.50 only?
It would be nice to have a kind of competition like the X-prize, where everyone sends in a number of propeller designs, pays for printing costs, and the most performant, and most pretty designs get a grand prize of $1 million!
so the cost of printing and testing 100 wind turbine prototypes to test them, would probably be about $500 for 12 inch high prototypes! And there could be variations of the current most performant ones, and radical new designs. It would be great!
Do you think, to compensate for the prototypes being small they should go through a high-pressure wind tunnel, or a tunnel that uses only CO2 or something? Which is heavier? should the most performant be measured by the volume they occupy?
it's something that a crazy person could certainly do with crowd sourced funding, and perhaps it could be an ongoing thing that year by year can continually advance the field of wind generators?
http://3d-printers.toptenreviews.com/