Comments on: The New NIMBY-Defeating Wind Turbine

By: Gunzyk

Gunzyk — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:35:00 +0000

Yes, that device looks discreet and possibly silent (as any tangential blower is). Only trouble is, you have no choice as to the orientation with respect to the wind direction, nor any adjustment with the latter; so, it ight be it is not the most efficient option in many cases.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:19:00 +0000

excellently said. thanks for chiming in.

By: Kplzthx

Kplzthx — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:51:00 +0000

You can only hear the sound produced by wind turbines when you are basically stood next to them. The majority of them are placed in areas away from large populations. People who complain about them are fussy. They don’t spoil the landscape in my opinion, in fact I think they look rather majestic. Pipe down and stop moaning. Or would you rather they built a nice big coal power station in that field over there?

By: BlipBlap

BlipBlap — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Awesome. I want one. Hope this comes to market.

By: reikiman

reikiman — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:10:00 +0000

I can’t imagine this would solve the vibration problems – in that the moving turbine blades will make vibrations, that are then transmitted into the building.

By: Delia Lake

Delia Lake — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:19:00 +0000

I don’t want to hurt bats. I want them around to eat mosquitos. No bats roost on my roof though. They don’t even strafe it. They flit around the trees catching insects on the fly.

By: MarilynWann

MarilynWann — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:35:00 +0000

I love the idea of having eco-friendly, power-generating non-denominational prayer wheels on my roofline. I’m just wondering if there’d be a problem with vibration.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:59:00 +0000

This is the kind of innovation that will generate support.

By: Sertowers33

Sertowers33 — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:25:00 +0000

Beacon Power is working with Gaelectric on storage and fast response needs.
“Brendan McGrath, Gaelectric Group CEO, said: “Our initial focus in developing energy storage was compressed air energy storage (CAES), which is an hours-to-days storage solution. But as we learned more about the energy balancing issues related to wind deployment in Ireland, the UK and Montana, we saw the need to add a storage solution in the seconds-to-minutes timeframe. Beacon’s flywheel technology is extremely effective in providing this service, and their energy storage systems can be deployed incrementally as wind assets are deployed. We’re tremendously excited by this collaboration. It gives us better control over our ability to develop wind projects where we want, and it complements CAES, our other energy storage offering.”"

By: Graw!!!

Graw!!! — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:28:00 +0000

Hey how do bats fare with this design traditional wind turbines wreak havoc on bat populations.