MAGLEV Wind Turbines
This is probably the coolest development I've seen in wind technology ever. According to their site, these new MAGLEV Wind Turbines operate in a near-frictionless environment leading to BIG gains in energy production. How big? roughly 1000 times that of traditional wind turbines. In other words, you can build one of these on a farm and save the 64,000 acres of space you would have had to use for a traditional wind farm.
If the claims are true, the potential here is really big, so they're putting one up in Arizona as a pilot project. If I hear anything new, I'll post about it here.
More information on this turbine and the technology supporting it can be found here:
- The official MAGLEV Wind Turbine site.
- TreeHugger article covering the initial MAGLEV Turbine press release
- WorldChanging's take on the technology
- Wikipedia's article on Halbach arrays
Big thanks to Margaret for finding this and sending it my way.
Comments
theresa
29 Jul 2007, 12:39 p.m. |
I want toronto to get one!
Scott
29 Jul 2007, 11:03 p.m. |
They always sound better on the company websites. My proof? Head over to www.gop.com and read up on George W.
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