MICRO MANAGING WIND ENERGY, TURBINES - mini vertical shaft ones

FREE POWER FROM MINI VERTICAL SHAFT WIND TURBINES 

Novascotia lies in the windy region, so fortunate are we.

Just like micro financing in third world countries. 

PITFALLS OF CONVENTIONAL GIANT TURBINES

Giant horizontal shaft wind turbines have their pitfalls which are as massive as they themselves are. Exorbitant initial manufacturing costs, high noise pollution, massive free hold space for installation in remote areas, substantial loss of power during transmission to the usage point, which defeats their purpose of putting them up. The costs of maintenance / repairs and installation are a separate chapter by itself. Financing such herculean projects becomes risky for the institutions with all the above factors on the negative side. Additionally, the insurance companies have to take big hits when the high winds & tornadoes topple these STEEL FANS like match sticks.  

THINK MICRO & LOCAL

If you want to eradicate poverty, then we have to go the micro financing route and empower the common / poorest man.

If you want to succeed in the garbage removal & disposable area then we have to go the localized route, of handling & disposal of garbage at the very source of its generation.   

If we want free power from the wind, then we have to go the easy route of MINI VERTICAL SHAFT WIND TURBINES. These wind mills are proposed to be installed on every pole that the power company owns and uses for power transmission to each household/group of houses. They will supply the power directly into the POWER GRID, when they do turn & twist at unbelievable low wind speeds of 5 kilometers per hour & even at 90 kilometers per hour.

Such low velocity winds are always blowing all along the coastline and in-lands on islands like Nova Scotia & Prince Edward. This is how we ensure that there are zero transmission losses because the consumer is using the generated power right there. This loss is a big loser when we go the conventional route.  

It is proposed to manufacture slender 12 / 15 inches’ diameter mini wind turbines about three feet tall. They will have double plated bases which would be spring loaded to minimize the vibrations caused on account of high revolutions per minute at high wind speeds. They will be locked into positions at the pole tops with innovative low cost arrangements.

SUCCESS OF THE PROPOSAL - EXISTING POWER LINE POLES

This innovative idea uses, the under utilized existing infrastructure of poles & their tops, the managerial setup of big power companies, their ability to out source the manufacture of such mini wind turbines, and finally install them in bulk is the key selling point for this otherwise not so profitable proposal, when done on a piecemeal basis.

Each mini turbine will be of no more the 1 kw capacity or maximum of 2 kw, to keep the cost of manufacture low and standardize the item. It will come in multiple colors to lure the local customer, homeowner to buy or finance it in easy installments. The customer, the consumer of power will be given a standard rebate in his power bill depending upon the RUNNING TIME of the wind mill which should be pretty easy to measure up and record.  50 thousand wind turbines running at full speed will generate 50,000 x 1 kw = 50,000 kw of power.

In a township of 400,000 it should not be very difficult to get 50,000 customers who would love to own their own mini wind turbine, specially when the arrangement between the power company is very TRANSPARENT. The author would definitely like to own one if not more such efficient wind turbines.

The tourism industry would additionally benefit from such an attractive looking site of spinning blades and colorful shades on thousands of POLE TOPS.

Rohit Khanna – IN-DUSTRIAL  ENGINEER