I wanted to stuff everything possible, all the good features of grabbing the power from the wind, that I could come up with... into a simple, rigid "blade" design. I am partial to turbines that are planned to not to maximize rotation speed, but the amount of wind " caught ". So, This design I call " Wind Yoni " .
It should align itself to the wind properly, form a straight " wall " of sail to catch the wind. It should also form a propeller blade, with wing-type lift fx when returning diagonally towards the wind. If the " solid wall of sail " side is covered, it should still keep rotating diagonally towards the wind ( with much less efficiency, but rotating nonetheless )... so that the wings / blades should not form any " resistance " to rotation at any point.
I myself can't really make up my mind ( as I have not tested them any, yet ) whether to consider them useful additions to wind turbine-technologies... or just colourful environmental art with inferior energy production.
" The Wind Yoni " name comes from the odd and freaky looking shape, that reminds me of Jim Woondring's depictions of " Yonis " that seem to float low in the sky in his magazine " Frank ". Also because Yoni's generate something into world, instead of just turning expensive stuffs into noise, destruction and noxious fumes. Also because I wanted to name it something as non-phallic as possible.
The one with 4 coloured sails / blades is here just to show the concept more clearly. It seems to me that 4 is actually 2 too much, as the sails might easily get too close to each other and create non-usefull pressures ( to wrong directions ), and they might just end up being on each other's way, blocking each other from the wind.
The one with wind coming directly from the viewer is earlier, but good enough prototype, depicting the form of the wings / sails / blades from that direction. Main difference to the wheeled one with the wind-energy logo, is that it is almost 2 x as tall vertically... and lacks the " downward wing-profile " curves at the top.
Also worth noticing is the supa-cool wind energy logo design in the blue triangular piece of sail ( That sail is not neccessary there, but probably does some good there anyway, as there was empty triangular area in the structure ).
One with the wheels and logo... if it works it might be possible, to attach these on a top of a tall pole on a similar mechanisms, without any wheels. This might require much strenghtening and anti-bending measures ( Something like in the Hanging Bridges ), and might get overtly complicated and high tech ( in materials ) for world locations with only very basic resources and materials. Hmm, perhaps a tower with many tiers of these... ( or would that be spectacular collapsing waiting to happen ).
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