No, a windmills pumps water or mills grain; low speed, geared down for high torque, low efficiency; flat blade shape. Output is usually a pump or grinder stone intended to do mechanical work on site.
A wind generator makes power, high speed, high efficiency, geared up for moderate torque; air foil blade shape. output is usually uses a PM Generator with slanted poles to reduce cogging, intended to make power for use or storage.
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okay sir smithlabs so these big commercial wind towers are wind generators, not windmills?
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Absolutely they use windmills in Holland.
Power is produced by wind generators, totally different machines, for totally different uses. I would like to make those horizontal axis wind generators obsolete!
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what??? and you have a plan or a design that could make them obsolete?
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What??? and you have a
Plan or a design that could
Make them obsolete?
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You have been haikued, ROFLOL!That'ill learn ya, durn ya!
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Yes, I have a design for a vertical axis machine based on a Darrieus rotor, that will be several times more efficient. I was stumped for years over rotor air foil shape (the perfect shape is expensive to test) until Sandia Labs in Albuquerque published their research on this shape. They are a government lab, so their research is public domain.
Their cost, 5 million dollars, my cost, zero;problem solved, ROFLOL!They were trying to solve the stalling problem, and got lost in the wasteland of restarting a stalled rotor. I just designed the stall out entirely! This new design will be several times more efficient than the modern wind generators. It can also be made in house sizes, and remain efficient. And it never has to turn into the wind.
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ok sir smithlabs I like your research methods of letting the government do it! lol. so these wind generators, how big are they and how tall are they?
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Yet, that research surprised me, ROFLOL! This design has no size restriction; but I intend to make one about 10 foot diameter and 8 foot high in two 90 degree offset sections. I will need to raise it above the trees, so it will need to be 100 feet high.
I expect about 2000 watt in moderate wind from this generator!
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