Interesting portable wind turbine -- looks like a barrel!

pigman1 wrote:
Just another perpetual motion machine. You can't make more energy than was in a wind segment no matter how you redirect it, accelerate it, change it. EVERY CHANGE REQUIRES ENERGY SO OUTPUT IS ALWAYS LESS THAN INPUT.

Anyone sprinkled a little mouse milk on it? I hear that works too. Large milking herds of mice take up less room than cows, and don't fart as much.

Well, you might consider re-thinking this a bit - after all just think of that LARGE herd of mice under your vehicles hood that somehow seem to ‘Perpetually’ keep your starting battery charged - lol

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Just another perpetual motion machine. You can't make more energy than was in a wind segment no matter how you redirect it, accelerate it, change it. EVERY CHANGE REQUIRES ENERGY SO OUTPUT IS ALWAYS LESS THAN INPUT.

Anyone sprinkled a little mouse milk on it? I hear that works too. Large milking herds of mice take up less room than cows, and don't fart as much.

It is a type of a Savonius rotor. It will pick up wind from any direction.

Simple designs use a barrel, split in half and then offset on a vertical axle.

There appears to be no price either.

Interesting. Might be neat if it could do double duty as a water turbine for those parked near streams.... XD

As usual, another interesting post. Looking forward to the future.

Here's a photo of this device:


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