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This comes around every so often, with the same claim, then disappears.
by chooseaname 6y ago
This comes around every so often, with the same claim, then disappears.
- geocrasher 6y agoIndeed. It's one of those recurring engineering memes that makes the rounds every decade or so. Id be surprised if it hasn't been on the cover, or in the pages of, Popular [Science|Mechanics] at least once a decade for the past 50 years. What I personally don't understand is why these aren't themselves driven by a vertical air wind turbine. The rotational speeds aren't very high, and it seems like a no-brainer. A VAWT with variable vanes could easily be shut down in a storm.
- selimthegrim 6y agoSavonius turbines just aren't very efficient.