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Here's a machine-translated post on vertical turbines by one of the pioneers in the modern wind turbine market: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&

by olau 5y ago

Here's a machine-translated post on vertical turbines by one of the pioneers in the modern wind turbine market: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://ing.dk/artikel/spoerg-fagfolket-hvorfor-satser-man-ikke-paa-vertikale-vindmoeller-239396 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https... TLDR; they have been tried out and found impractical. I'll add to that that many, many years have gone into the manufacturing of current big wind turbines. Making something that can withstand the weather, have a high uptime, relatively cheap to manufacture and put up - these are not easy problems.

supportlocal4h 5y ago
I'd caution generally against the argument that "it has been tried before and didn't work." There are undoubtedly value lessons to learn from earlier attempts. But "don't even think about it" is almost never one of those lessons.
- olau 5y ago
  I would kindly ask you to read the article I linked to before passing judgement on my extremely short summary. I skimmed the paper, and its contribution is a study on how vertical turbines seem to behave in a very small turbine farm. It does not study whether vertical turbines make more sense than horizontal. But the only reason we see it here, is because this article makes some pretty big and unfounded statements about the current horizontal wind turbine approach. So we're here because of misinformation.