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I’ve been wondering why we don’t have these on top of our street lights. I imagine a street light with a Darrieus vawt on the pole under the light and a small s
by efnx 5y ago
I’ve been wondering why we don’t have these on top of our street lights. I imagine a street light with a Darrieus vawt on the pole under the light and a small solar panel on top.
- tachyonbeam 5y agoNoise, maintenance, added cost and complexity. Then you also have the issue that you need an inverter and some kind of scheme to communicate with the mini wind turbines so they don't drive the voltage too high or some other kind of scheme for regulating that.
- foolfoolz 5y agobecause a whole city with turbines on each street light might produce the same amount of power as 1 large scale wind farm at a fraction of the maintenance cost
- lofi_lory 5y agoThe new Siemens offshore turbines put out up to 16MW. This has blown me away. Tho, they are scary machines and I get uncomfortable looking at them (like single balcony on a huge wall kind of uncomfortable). Aesthetically the vertical ones are much, much better IMO. Especially if they can be placed in an symmetrical pattern, not this super optimized complex mess traditional ones show.
- patrickk 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSnwW5v3f8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSnwW5v3f8 There is a roadside vertical turbine concept which seems promising. It uses lampposts as a mounting point, reducing materials needed, reusing existing cables in the lamp, and scavenges energy from trucks thundering by. And since it's in a developed area, you don't affect existing views.