Maglev Wind Turbine
www.maglevwindturbine.com Demo CGI for proposed 2GW Magnetic Leviatated wind Turbine. *Efficient Frictionless Power Generation with less maintenance, compared to HAWT. No oil change or replacement of the bearings, gears. Since, MAGLEV does NOT require such. ** Current bearing technology has forced wind turbine designers into horizontal spindle three bladed wind turbines. In this design the huge blades are connected to a spindle in the center. The bearings that support the spindle and control the pitch of the blades (which can be hundreds of feet long) see huge pitch-moment loading, some of which is manifest as torque energy that is focused through the center spindle. The target speed for the spindle is 18 or 20 rpm and the bearings holding the spindle are mounted in a huge casting which also contains a large gearbox stepping the speed up to 1800 to 2000 RPMs which allows for the proper surface speed relationship between the coils and magnets. It is necessary to invert or condition the current, which is expensive. This gearbox is full of many large bearings, gears and castings; for a 2 MW turbine the gearbox can easily weigh 30 tons. This gearbox needs to be mounted on the top of a pole more than 150 feet in the air and be able to support the turbine blades under full-force wind conditions. ***MAGLEV Power Generation, the pitch moment ratio is closer to 1-to-1 then the 100-to-1 as with a horizontal spindle design.
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2GW in a day or year? Sounds like it can power well over a million homes.
@wowiejunior Fail at Failing. You would no more worry about this falling over then a skyskraper or Water Tower.
this is funny. My technics turbtable works like this XD with magnet that is
@wowiejunior
LOL !! hope that Never ever happens!!!, actually, There has been lots of modifications to the original concept. New Maglev Turbine features axial stablization system that prevents such scenario. I will post the updated design in the near future.
OMG its so big. if something goes wrong, will it roll down the hill and destroy villages? winner!!!!
@ztcrown hahahahaha
Interesting concept. Would be useful in certain applications, such as DisneyWorld. However, impractical for smaller communities
As I understand it, with wind power, Watt’s per acre has always been the curse, making standard turbine farms somewhat impractical,
But then our “conventional method” of harnessing wind pre-dates the middle ages,
On the other hand, THIS is 21 Century technology and the timing couldn’t better!!!
@sideslide23
No doubt !!!!!
If Obama see this, were getting this.
Looks like a pool filter.
@RandomConcepts agreed, but at least they are giving off plumes of smog, polluting our waters, and using up fossil fuels.
@niszali True, but we are already relying on large singular plants to supply most of our power, not small deployments.
@iRtehSHIZ You are right, and there are some bold claims made here, but we can’t meet these alternatives with all this naysaying or they will never get off the ground. They have to sell the product and to say “frictionless” has a much nicer ring than “a fraction of a degree of friction” : ) Integrity in marketing is important though, but they have to sell the concept.
he sounds like hes about to say
“Accept no imitations – everything else is for pussies.”
Cool Idea but I don’t think that there is enough steel / metal produced per year to suply a project that big , it will take 10s of years to buld
That thing is huge. how much would it cost to build?
do what when hurricanes come?
Damn the thing is huge and it looks good too…
I want one! Where do I buy one? What does it cost? How much power does it produce?
“requires no input power”?
The maglev system itself will require input power. For the electromagnets.
has this company got connections to the Venus Project?.
Nothing on earth outside of a vacuum is frictionless
excellent
Hahah something this massive would be a wonder of the world just in terms of size.