Are you looking to build a wind turbine, or to buy a windmill, and you want to know whether it is better to get yourself a vertical axis win...

You may have seen this photo online recently of EDF’s floating offshore vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) called “Vertiwind.” It has a nameplate capacity of two megawatts. The Vertiwind will be part of EDF-EN’s offshore wind farm project called Inflow, which the European Commission is helping fund. The strange design piqued my curiosity about VAWTs. Why…

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Blade arc design, effective use of wind resources, to obtain higher power generation Maglev Wind Turbine: With 3 phase AC permanent magnet instrument, and low torsion, high power tracking intelligent microprocessor, can effectively regulate current and voltage, significantly increase wind energy utilization and annual power generation. High-quality aluminum alloy blades: the mutual guide blades are made of high-quality aluminum alloy plates, and the surface of the blades is sprayed or…

In this study, the performance, drag, and horizontal midplane wake characteristics of a vertical-axis Savonius wind turbine are investigated experimentally. The turbine is drag driven and has a helic...

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UGE raises the bar for vertical axis micro wind turbines with launch of new VisionAIR3 turbine.

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I made these SolidWorks Renderings in Tribute to a Very Fascinating Design. Gizmag.com Article : DARWIND5 Wind Turbine The DARWIND5 is an interesting Vertical Axis Wind Turbine of which (I feel) w…