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I'd be interested in the failure modes of this, especially when the cooling malfunctions suddenly (or along with a failing temperature sensor).

• rbanffy 8y ago
  Those would be interesting indeed, as well as the transition to/from superconductivity of the rotor. I'd imagine that, when the rotor loses superconductivity, it'd becomes an insulator and the whole thing would be a rotating ceramic brick inside the fixed coils. There would be no torque to counter the wind, so it'd rotate faster, maybe fast enough to overheat the bearings.
• londons_explore 8y ago
  All the energy in the superconductors magnetic field is suddenly released into heat, which will make it get hot and boil off all the helium it's sitting in. The generator will then have no magnetic field, so generate no power, and start to spin faster and faster. Hopefully there are some breaks to stop it before this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6SuCut91WY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6SuCut91WY
  • TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
    Looks like the turbine blades are variable probably pitch[1], so that would have to fail as well. 1. https://ecoswing.eu/project https://ecoswing.eu/project