Small Wind Turbines Given A Boost
Category: General NewsPosted: May 13, 2008 04:45PM
Author: jammin
We have been told for years that renewable energy sources are the future, though we still get a majority of our juice from more traditional power plants (you know, the ones that burn fossil fuels and aren't doing the environment any favours). Now, most of us wouldn't even think about building a giant wind turbine for our own home energy needs and this is where smaller turbines come in. Here, as with many other spheres in life it seems that more = better and this is demonstrated by inventor Doug Selsam, who has hooked up multiple turbines to work together to produce more power. By using multiple turbines, prototypes have been able to produce somewhere in the region of 200 Watts with wind speeds of 20mph from an 18" design. This is all made possible by modern carbon fibre materials. You can read more about the Massive Parallel Wind Processing (really) turbines here.
