Maglev Wind Turbine Power Plant


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Maglev Wind Turbine Power Plant can generate the same amount of energy annually as 5,475,000 barrels of oil.

http://magturbine.com/

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Ok how the !@*%$! do you get

ponyboy's picture

Ok how the !@*%$! do you get the forum to stop putting the first sentance into the subject heading? :-( Sorry, on to the question. :-)

Now why don't they just put something like this deep in the ocean where nobody will be bothered with it. Sure the current will only be a few knots, but there's a lot more mass behind water than there is from the wind.

re: water turbine

kyle's picture

ponyboy wrote:
Now why don't they just put something like this deep in the ocean where nobody will be bothered with it. Sure the current will only be a few knots, but there's a lot more mass behind water than there is from the wind.

Because Elmo would get fileted and someone somewhere would make a stink about that.

NEMO

rreidnauer's picture

kyle wrote:
ponyboy wrote:
Now why don't they just put something like this deep in the ocean where nobody will be bothered with it. Sure the current will only be a few knots, but there's a lot more mass behind water than there is from the wind.

Because Elmo would get fileted and someone somewhere would make a stink about that.

NEMO not Elmo. LMAO!! (smileys badly needed)

Rod quoted: NEMO not Elmo.

ugh!!...sorry..error

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ponyboy's picture

Unless the fish was really depressed then it would be Elmo. :-)

lol....Nemo, Elmo, you knew

kyle's picture

lol....Nemo, Elmo, you knew what I meant!

Water Turbines

rreidnauer's picture

Just type something into the Subject line.

Yep, that would work Ponyboy. With water being 773 times more dense than air at sea level, even 2 knots of current vs. 20 knots of wind, that still makes the water 9.7 times more powerful. Though I sure water drag will cut into that pretty hard, and some redesign would be in order, (you don't use airplane props underwater) even if it was only equally as efficient, the benefits of being out of sight and out of the way seem to quite a benefit themselves.

Now you're talkin'!!! That

rreidnauer's picture

Now you're talkin'!!!

That would be the first vertical axis wind turbine that I'd agree could make significant power. (maybe not quite as much as they claim, but a lot none-the-less)