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Yay Savonius and 5-7mph turbulent winds | 34 comments (34 topical, editorial)
Re: Yay Savonius and 5-7mph turbulent winds (3.00 / 0) (#33)
by aogden (abogden@sbcglobal.net) on Wed Aug 3rd, 2005 at 12:35:31 AM MST
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I thought folks might find the optimized dual blade vawt graphic interesting.
This is from the May 2005 CEC study. The claim is about 27% improvement over conventional designs. The slots are a bit hard to see. I wonder what a three blade configuration would look like?
http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/2397/Optimized_VAWT.JPG

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Yay Savonius and 5-7mph turbulent winds | 34 comments (34 topical, 0 editorial)

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