Comments on: Vertical Axis Disk Wind Turbine

By: EricEvansAKADaMan

EricEvansAKADaMan — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:29:23 +0000

its too complex. too much energy is being wasted on flapping the blades.

By: bigzipper

bigzipper — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:52:24 +0000

Sorry you have taken my comment the way you did. If you’re going to post your “ticket to fame & riches” on YouTube, be prepared and willing for others to give you a reality check. I simply gave you my honest opinion based on my many years of engineering experience. As far as patents: I have many in the medical device/Aerospace industry. What I see in your device is a clever way of making a disc rotate horizontally; it’s just not a device which trumps current technology. Be nice.

By: bigzipper

bigzipper — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:30:40 +0000

directed at both the person who posted the video and the foul-mouth fool who defended him.

By: viciousKev

viciousKev — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:57:38 +0000

this would be an interesting bullet trap

By: dobermans4you2

dobermans4you2 — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:53:13 +0000

too much can go wrong with this design.

By: jigglesnap

jigglesnap — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:25:24 +0000

I bet this is real quiet scaled up.

By: russlehman

russlehman — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:46:47 +0000

Interesting design, but I bet it’s less efficient than a propeller type wind turbine.

By: PatrikMacGoohan

PatrikMacGoohan — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:17:18 +0000

Looks like a lot of energy is wasted opening the metal blades. If the blades were super light and they were being signaled to open that might produce interesting results. Might be less efficient too. I do like the way the design is very sleek as it is pushing into the wind on the return part of the rotation.

By: tekn0lust

tekn0lust — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:18:31 +0000

Don’t worry. People ridiculed Einstein, Edison and Marconi too. Put everything you have into your design, it will either succeed and be useful or it will fail and add to the overall repository of human knowledge. Either way your work is fruitful and not a waste of time.

By: parryriposte

parryriposte — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:31:38 +0000

It is a drag design. Drag designs get less than 15% efficiency. So it is a waste of time.