A Spanish radical company called Vortex Bladeless changes the way we capture energy from the wind.The ompany targets to generate wind power through Vortex, which is a stick like bladeless wind turbine.When wind flows over stick like turbine the flow changes and generates a cyclical pattern of vertices which is called vortex shedding effect that creates vorticity.Through vorticity Vortex Bladeless generate energy.
Co-founder of Vortex Bladeless David Yanez explains the example of vorticity; the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940.The bridge started vibrating in heavy winds, wind conditions was 40 mile per hour.As a result of this incident scientists and engineers changed their way they built and designed bridges.
Yanez and his team take advantage of vorticity which is a aeroelactic effect that make vibration instead of turning, and capture the energy.The mast designed to vibrate in the wind.Actually it is a Vortex wind generator which has a fixed mast and it has no spinning parts like blades.It is a magnetic induction system turbine which has no contact between moving parts so there is no lubricant needed.
According to the company site, the Vortex manufacturing costs and operating costs are 53 % and 51% respectively that are lower than conventional wind turbines.Co-founder of Vortex Bladeless Raul Martin added, "compare our invention to a conventional wind turbine with similar energy generation—ours would cost significantly less," around 50 percent or 47 percent less."
This turbine has potential to generate more energy in less space.Martin said the next step will be to lunch a 4-kilowatt wind turbine for small businesses.
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