Check out this wind design

[wopachop]

Scaled down to something like an 4x8 sheet would be interesting.

 

[hwy17]

Matt Farrell takes his stuff seriously, he wouldn't just go and post any BS he finds online.

 

[OzSolar]

Sadly, I think he would. From what I've seen he takes the truth less seriously than he does clicks. He's never backtracked on the MANY vaporware ideas he's promoted in the past. Clicks = money.

None of the turbines he's promoted in the below video ever made it to market and most of them are still embroiled in lawsuits.

 

[Whats_per_question]

Matt Farrell takes his stuff seriously, he wouldn't just go and post any BS he finds online.

I thought his comments were unbalanced. For example he was comparing the difficulty in delivering and installing massive turbines (from the video it looks like about 3 megawatt towers and blades) which is a problem that is well known (and also mostly solved with their flash specialised double-trucks) with something that the inventors claim can generate 2.5 megawatts and fits in a shipping container. Apples vs Oranges.
I thought his disclaimers on how all the data so far is from the inventors, with not a single duplicated setup, was underplayed.

I also think the meaning of the phrase "AirLoom has a solid financial base that might help them navigate some of the upcoming challenges" is that they have loads of cash available to make marketing materials, hawk the idea to investors, and then fold like every company that has claimed to make a non-traditional turbine that outperforms traditional turbines.

So far, there are lots of hobby turbine that have been mildly successful.

So far, these are very few successful large-scale turbine manufacturers;
- a handful that make small turbines in the 0.5m to 1m diameter class that generate tiny wattages for boats (but do it well)
- an even smaller group of manufacturers that make multi-megawatt turbines that sit at > 10m off the ground with huge blades.
- a large number of manufacturers that make rubbish and change their brand names frequently and use blackhat techniques to con people. I list them in the "successful" bracket because the turbines don't work as stated (usually produce about 1 to 10 percent of their rated number) but they very successfully gain wealth at the expense of their unsuspecting customers.

 

[hwy17]

I thought his comments were unbalanced.

Good judgement. My comment was some unfairly dry sarcasm. He is a fool.

 

[OzSolar]

Anytime I see a start up company with "new" technology the first thing I do is look for the investor tab. While not as in your face as others it's not that hard to find.

Then I look for any actual installation pictures of the "new" idea. There's only one video that may or may not be computer generated. It bet it's not working (actually generating) and to my eye it looked like it was being motored and not spinning on it's own.

History (not me) says that in less than 3 years the principal(s) of this company will have faded into either with millions of investors money leaving behind a shell game of a company that is in the middle of dozens of lawsuits.

 

[hwy17]

On a related note, I cannot believe Gravity Vault is still going. I guess enough people still want to believe.

 

[OzSolar]

What's Gravity Vault?

 

[Geonics]

hello all, i bought 4 used solar panels & i discovered the specification labels were yanked off. From what i got so far, the Suntech pair were manufactured in 2010 (37th week) from the last 4 digits of the serial number as explained in a Suntech installation manual. The other pair are either Topray or Era. The question is how do i get the specs from the embedded serial numbers. Thx
SUNTECH
1. STP 059711732073333710
2. STP 059711730442523710

TOPRAY/ERA
1.AS 0610306492
2. 0912010313508

 

[kommando]

You best start a new thread in this section

DIY Solar General Discussion

diysolarforum.com

This is the wind section and a thread on a wind array so no relation to your issue. The link I posted is for solar.