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Heh, mount this "tower" on slip rings and an alternator and you can have both a solar array and a windmill in one.
by bhousel 15y ago
Heh, mount this "tower" on slip rings and an alternator and you can have both a solar array and a windmill in one.
- jacquesm 15y agoSomeone beat you to it (that's the HAT variety, I guess yours would be a VAT): http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7045702.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7045702.html The windmill scene is even more outlandish than the solar panel people, and the funny thing is all the weird ideas come full circle every decade or so.
- bhousel 15y agoWow, that is outlandish.. The panels aren't pointed at the sun, and the blades would be so heavy that they'd need a gale to get moving. It's kinda the worst of both worlds. Though part of me is tempted to build it to see what it would do.