Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Looking for Crowdfunding

August 30th, 2011 by Zachary Shahan

When inspiration and innovation are held back by the lack of funding what can be done?

A company, D.C. Revolutions, has found an answer in creating a Crowdfunding Campaign in partnership with Indie GoGo.

Indie GoGo was established in 2008 and is available to help up-and-coming companies that present sustainable concepts that need financial support of the public to become implemented. These campaigns are crucial and the public should be involved because all sustainable issues should be a concern for everyone because they ultimately affect everyone.

D.C. Revolutions is a startup company in Palo Alto, CA and was founded by Durell Coleman, CEO in partnership with Dean Young, COO, and Matt Hart, Power System Integrator. They are focused on redesigning renewable energy starting with a vertical axis wind turbine.

Read more on sister site Green Building Elements: D.C. Revolutions’ Wind Turbine Prototype Seeks Public Funding

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Tags: dc revolutions, indie gogo, indiegogo, micro wind turbines, vertical axis wind turbines, vertical-axis wind turbine

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Patrick Simpsons

giving such information can help me with my research about vertical axis wind generators.
Captain Obvious

Crowdfunding: When experts pass on something that isn’t viable under close scrutiny, get a whole lot of suckers in the public to waste money on fly-by-night ideas.
- Poeticelectric
  
  While I don’t think crowdfunding is a viable option for technology development, it is good to potentially demonstrate public support for an idea. Alot of investment capital is not in the hands of experts either, most just look at market potential and quick return on investment, which does not necessarily equal viable technological solutions for using renewable energy.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Pomfret/824530526 Ian Pomfret

I wish these things would work unfortunately most of them don’t.
And the few that do work are very expensive.