Comments on: 10kw Magnetically Levitated Vertical Axis Wind Turbine VAWT

By: bellaggio1770

bellaggio1770 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:21:28 +0000

Wow, that’s pretty massive. Do you plan to sell this to residential customers? If so, they must have a huge yard or house. I assume it is made of fiberglass with grey gel coat. Great job !

By: dianep123

dianep123 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:22:05 +0000

Is this the Inductrack patent? You have a circular halbach array’s on a circular “track” and then extract the induced current from the track?

By: robstar256

robstar256 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:13:27 +0000

This version is meant for commercial and apartment buildings. There will be a smaller residential version in the future.

The blades on this model are fiberglass.. and the magnetic mechanism isn’t similar to Inductrack… they’ve got a much more elaborate system than this requires for lifting.

By: variablestatus

variablestatus — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:53:26 +0000

super usage of magnetic levitation as a frictionless bearing. a major key to keeping your energy produced advantage compared to energy lost in drag. i use magnetic levitation in my magnetic pulse magnetic motor design. it is the way of the future. thanks for posting your video’s…good work!

By: MoggJam

MoggJam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:03:58 +0000

What advantage do you get from tapering the top of the blades like that?
Also it’s normal magnets rather than electromagnets that your using to levitate it, right? What sort of impact does the use of that have on cost/power output with normal bearings?

By: sled1950

sled1950 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:22:40 +0000

what about carbon fiber?, much lighter than fiberglass. more expensive in the short term, however the lighter weight would spin easier and produce more power way cool , thanks for the vid

By: ArnoldVeeman

ArnoldVeeman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:20:41 +0000

What about collecting electrostatic energy as well? Is it possible to combine it with thisdevice? It must be? It could be usefull when there’s just a little wind for to get electrostatic energy there’s no need to spin so fast…

By: techforumz

techforumz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:45:45 +0000

Yes but how much power does the turbine make more than a standard fixture vs the 10kW power usage.

By: robstar256

robstar256 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:09:47 +0000

stay tuned, there’s some power tests coming this month

By: caucazoidandroid

caucazoidandroid — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:29:15 +0000

How long do the magnets last before they wear out? And how much maintenance cost does that add? I wonder if it’s worth the extra cost… It looks cool though!