Wooden wind generator - Page 2

house4u · 02-24-15, 05:20 AM

I thought it was a joke

Cool generator, looks like a toy.

mmesser@ameren.com · 07-16-15, 04:48 PM

I believe this wooden windmill is very innovative and challenging in its principles. I might try it some day, but I think there might be far easier ways to make electricity, especially in our new century! Good job, though! We'll see who can challenge the Bloom Energy method?!

Bicycle Bob · 08-07-19, 04:43 PM

Wood is certainly adequate for moderate size blades. It is still used for aircraft propellers, laminated as unidirectional plywood to avoid warps. Carving a first-class shape is not really hard. You can print out the station templates with an angle of attack line, and just set them up on your workbench with the blade on a hub to swing in for checks.

nibs · 10-26-20, 08:47 PM

Having carved perhaps a thousand windmill blades in the 1980's I wonder why more people do not just go to a two bladed prop. My blades really flew, in about 10kts of wind, they filled the circle, ie in theory every molecule of air got to impart it's energy to the blade. fewer blades = less drag, although multi blades may produce more power in light winds.
But most people do not live in places windy enough to pay for a windmill.

02-24-15, 05:20 AM	#11
house4u Lurking Renovator Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Ukraine Posts: 17 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	I thought it was a joke Cool generator, looks like a toy.

07-16-15, 04:48 PM	#12
mmesser@ameren.com Lurking Renovator Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Fulton, MO Posts: 3 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I believe this wooden windmill is very innovative and challenging in its principles. I might try it some day, but I think there might be far easier ways to make electricity, especially in our new century! Good job, though! We'll see who can challenge the Bloom Energy method?!

08-07-19, 04:43 PM	#13
Bicycle Bob Suncatcher Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Spiritwood, Northern Saskatchewan Posts: 42 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Wood is certainly adequate for moderate size blades. It is still used for aircraft propellers, laminated as unidirectional plywood to avoid warps. Carving a first-class shape is not really hard. You can print out the station templates with an angle of attack line, and just set them up on your workbench with the blade on a hub to swing in for checks.

10-26-20, 08:47 PM	#14
nibs Apprentice EcoRenovator Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 206 Thanks: 1 Thanked 18 Times in 17 Posts	Having carved perhaps a thousand windmill blades in the 1980's I wonder why more people do not just go to a two bladed prop. My blades really flew, in about 10kts of wind, they filled the circle, ie in theory every molecule of air got to impart it's energy to the blade. fewer blades = less drag, although multi blades may produce more power in light winds. But most people do not live in places windy enough to pay for a windmill.