OK I put this one in “news COVERAGE” rather than just “news” because what this article says (this new turbine design is “good”) is WRONG - bad info.
This is a new one for me: The article DOES NOT MENTION HOW IT WORKS. All it does is make typical “Professor Crackpot” claims about how wonderful it is, without even a single clue as to how it (supposedly) works.
It’s called “Aeromine”, and it had me thinking of a theme song for this engineering fraud/disaster: Ohh oh oh oh sweet Aeromine" (Guns & Roses Sweet Child o’ Mine).
Now you might notice that I am “denunking” this turbine WITHOUT KNOWING A SINGLE DETAIL OF HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK!
How could I POSSIBLY throw THIS baby out with the bathwater WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT HOW IT 'WORKS"???
Well this might start giving you a clue of how I was able to confidently say “idiots idiots idiots” for 14 years and counting:
Once you get used to identifying “The Professor Crackpot Syndrome”, you DON’T NEED TO KNOW ALL THE DETAILS TO JUST SAY “Yup, that’s another one!”
I see no moving parts - it advertises no moving parts.
It targets building-mounting (which could work fine, but is nonetheless “Professor Crackpot” territory - the good professor is mysteriously attracted to building-mounted concepts…)
It claims “They can generate up to 100%” - 100% of what? Does it beat the Betz coefficient? No. 100% of a building’s power needs. When used in combination with solar!!! What a meaningless claim! How about telling us in Watts? Give us the swept area and weight of the device so we can compare it to other wind energy devices? No need for such inconvenient formalities from “Professor Crackpot”!
No, they just state, offhandedly, in the headline, that “This groundbreaking motionless wind turbine is 50% more efficient than regular turbines
They can generate renewable energy up to 100 percent.”
If that is not a 100% “Professor Crackpot” claim, I don’t know what is!
The article is written by a girl, by the way. And it is nothing but fluff. Not a single detail of how it actually works! Just idle claims of alleged greatness - In a supposed “Engineering” publication!
I think we’ve seen the design before in more detail from another, previous “Professor Crackpot Press-Release”. I think it uses airfoils to generate a vacuum that then pulls air through a small fan (turbine) through ducts. One more dumb idea.
Now you guys have been exposed to this 'Professor Crackpot" press-release/headline stuff for long enough now to immediately recognize it when you see it, right? I mean, like, nobody here could take this article the LEAST bit seriously, right? And you SEE all of the “SYMPTOMS” of “The Professor Crackpot Syndrome” here now, right?
OK, well, maybe at least SOME of you can see what’s going on here, right?
Hopefully MOST of you can see it???
So you can SEE by this point, that there really IS a “Professor Crackpot Syndrome”, with known symptoms, as easy to identify as red spots identify chickenpox, right?
Well I hope this clears up the “mystery” of “How can Doug come in and immediately discard, out-of-hand, any apparently-nascent “superior” wind energy technology, as utter garbage, right out of the box, even without knowing all the details?”
You SHOULD, by this point in time, be able to RULE THIS IDEA OUT with ONE QUICK LOOK, right?
Yet - look - there are a LOT of SERIOUS people BELIEVING in this utter garbage, right? They’ve even got BASF supposedly salivating over a test unit on their roof. Does BASF have a lot of “really smart people” onboard? OF COURSE!
And that is exactly how this stuff works: It doesn’t MATTER HOW HIGH YOUR IQ IS!!! If YOU DON:T KNOW ABOUT WIND ENERGY, YOU COULD BE A GENIUS AND STILL FALL FOR 100% WRONG STORIES LIKE THIS!!
And how can I dismiss this idea out of hand so easily? BECAUSE I’VE SEEN HUNDREDS OF DEVICES WITH THE SAME EXACT SYMPTOMS! I’m not even going to list the symptoms again. You don;t even need to see the picture or hear any details - just the claims made are ridiculous! Half the price of solar - without any exposed working surfaces - without any noise - SURE! If you don’t know the symptoms by now, you just aren’t paying attention.
By the way, did you notice the spacing between rooftop turbines in their “rendering” of a huge logistics warehouse? (A gigantic new logistics warehouse just like it was recently built near here, by the way)
Why the spaces between the turbines? If they work so well, why would they leave spaces between them, rather than maximizing output by placing more turbines in the spaces between turbines? Because they are IDIOTS! COMPLETE, MORONIC, WORTHLESS-TO-THE-CAUSE IDIOTS!!!
And YOU should be able, by now, to IDENTIFY WIND-IDIOTS AT A MERE GLANCE.
I hope thjs explains how real wind people can so easily identify complete idiocy in wind energy design. promoted by “really smart” know-nothings!
It does not MATTER how many “PhD’s” they may have. When it comes to wind energy: Idiots are idiots. And MOST people ARE complete idiots when it comes to wind energy, sorry to say.
But that is good, because by comparison it makes us “smart”! Right? Right???..