Vortex Bladeless, any input ?

[Dispatcherjinn]

Is any one on the board following this? What i find is rather vague and I don't speak Spanish.

[stofanel]

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537721/bladeless-wind-turbines-may-offer-more-form-than-function/

[Dispatcherjinn]

Thanks for the link. It did not seams likely to me. Not much of a harvesting profile , but i was curious how it moving the magnets across the copper?

[boB]

I call Bull$#|+ on this one.

[Dispatcherjinn]

yahh i gottia second that constitution, i get suspicious when you are given to little details and it doesn't seam to occupy much square foot wind loading to harvest much energy 

[electrondady1]

there has been a few ideas about novel ways of harnessing wind energy but swept area is the fundamental aspect.

[stofanel]

I am sure there are a few investors willing to throw stupid money at them. This reminds me of FloDesign (the shrouded wind turbine maker) who promised to reduce the cost of wind energy threefold and raised over $80 million in funding. Now they built a prototype and it performs no better than a conventional wind turbine.