Featured in Popular Science alongside GE and Google on products that they see as game changers: www.popsci.com Fast Company Magazine has this to say about the Jellyfish: wwwind powerany.com Jellyfish Wind Power Concept: What if you could plug renewable wind energy into the wall just like a blender or a toaster? Instead of using power, a wind appliance actually generates it! For more details visit: www.clariantechnologies.com Smart-Grid Enabled: With onboard Wi-Fi/wimax the Jellyfish is also smart-grid enabled. Today, wind and solar-powered homes are operated as autonomous points within the local electrical grid. However, they are an overlooked, yet important electrical power resource. If instead, each were harnessed collectively and tied interactively with the local utility grid as a Point-to-Grid (P2G) power generator, or even regulator, considerable economic, environmental and system reliability benefits are possible. By itself, each of these power sources is indeed small in its impact on the power system. In the aggregate, however, the economic value of P2G power is significant, more than enough to offset the initial cost of installing the required control hardware and integrating these systems with the local utility grid. Equally important, the necessary regulatory and energy distribution infrastructure, and hardware components to enable a number of different types of P2G-based systems are already in place today. The convergence of existing distributed electric power …
At the 45 second mark on video, the unit running is wobbling. If that is a new unit, and wobbles when running, how long is it expected to last, or am I just being too observant?
Looking on the website for 10 sec. will tell you it has safety features that allow it to shut off the power when it detects an outage.
when the power is off does this still pump mower into the grid or does it disconnect?
Nice video there on wind power! Wind power is the future and with places like Texas and Massachusetts leading United States in wind power, very soon power or electricity will be harnessed with the power of wind. Transformer company, Pacific Crest Transformers manufactures liquid-filled distribution transformers…It also offers many other energy-efficient transformers for the wind energy sector.
It only costs $400! That is a bargain!
The jellyfish hits the markets next year
If the price is right I would buy two or three.
Awesome! We are going to help you win this!
When can we buy one?
Great design… congratulations on your media coverage, I hope you get the support you deserve to reach production. Great work!
Where can I get one? I have been thinking about this for about a year, but never had anyone to do a fun project like this.
If I understood your question correctly, it turns out an AC induction motor can also be used as a generator. The wind in this case spins the motor FASTER than the motor’s synchronous speed (this is managed by an onboard controller) and thus generates electricity. Google around for more details on the principles involved. Also be sure to read the other comments and responses – you’ll find similar questions/answers related to the principles involved
very best
And if i didnt understand what you were saying. and instead you were talking about moving the motor yourself who would want to stand there making a motor turn?
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Perfect.
Yep that’s correct – Tesla first discovered this. In the case of your blender you’d need to turn it at more than 3600 rpm, but here the motor is a slightly different configuration that runs at much lower RPM – but exact same concept.
But, does that actually work? i mean, If I turn my blender’s motor with a hand crank while it is plugged in will I be generating electricity? Or is this some idea to make that work.
When you get a website…. Please let me know
Thanks for the answer, and good luck on your project.
slip and speed are managed by an oboard controller to maximize output and load, all at 50/60 Hz output, which is controlled by the grid
How do you get a right phase-angle and exactly 50/60Hz of frequency?
if it works it would be a great idea.