Yeah, I’ve got a 24-foot wooden tower here - works great, a portable pyramid with a steel top to support a turbine, moveable, tiltable, and we use chunks of concrete to weigh it down against storms. Big deal. All windmill towers were made of wood for most of history.
This kind of crap gets so redundant after a while. One more “press-release breakthrough”, this time from “Rosie” - a great source for beginners to possibly learn some teeny bit of information about wind turbines, that all real wind people already know. How many articles have we seen over the last decade celebrating this “new” concept of wooden towers for wind turbines? And what does it have to do with AWE? Newsflash: structures of all kinds, including towers, buildings, vehicles. and turbines themselves, can be made of wood! OK, now you can go back to sleep.
I ‘ve pointed out hundreds, if not thousands, of the daily “press-release breakthroughs” for “advanced” wind turbine designs, “revolutionary” battery technologies, the underwater turbines, the “flying taxis”, the spinning cylinders on ships, on and on. They all lead nowhere. None of the “game-changer” wind turbines are ever even built. The spinning cylinders are a passing fad of greenwashing desperation, which will soon be removed as a nuisance. Almost none of them emerge as any working product, except maybe LFP batteries, which, while heavier, are at least cheaper.
We’ve discussed all the minute details of “windsleds” over and over, ever since THAT topic became Santos’ “fallback position” after he couldn’t come up with any workable AWE ideas. Like I’ve said, even as little kids, we had crafted sails for our sleds and rode them across icy fields - big deal!
Yeah, sure, “Rosie” again… I mean, I guess, for people who don’t know anything about wind energy, it’s better than nothing. Another “gamechanger” “press-release breakthrough”… Stay tuned now, as everyone forgets wooden towers for a couple more years, until next time it is once again re-announced as “a new idea” - the next great “game-changing” “press-release breakthrough! 