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Need to have a $/watt-hr metric to know if this will be viable. This reminds me of the Windbelt generator from several years ago. It was a brilliant design to e
by carabiner 3y ago
Need to have a $/watt-hr metric to know if this will be viable. This reminds me of the Windbelt generator from several years ago. It was a brilliant design to extract power from low speed wind, but did not find economic value with existing cheaper forms of generation.
- jacquesm 3y agoThe windbelt was a non-starter, and the idea had already been proposed in various forms decades ago. The same with all of the variations on the VAT, energy from soundwaves and many other curiosities. They are fun on the toy scale but you can't turn them into usable and net-energy positive devices (energy produced over the lifetime of the device / energy consumed by the construction and installation of the device).