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Superpowerful small wind turbines light up the night

engadget.com — Developed by an inventor named Doug Selsam, the new turbines have rotors just 14-18 inches in diameter, but can produce 200 watts in a 20MPH wind, and much more than that at higher wind speeds. The trick is using high-strength carbon-fiber materials that allow several rotors to be hooked up as one -- in strong winds a thirteen-rotor system can prod

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  • makenshin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Sweet, though i'm sure they could probably make them smaller still and get about the same output. This is where hybrid tech really needs to go though. Hybrids of wind and solar power.
  • billflu, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Hopefully this isn't one of those break-through technologies that everyone forgets about and it disappears.
  • ukbender, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1At some point in the future i'm sure we will all have to consider some options like this. Just a shame that the current infrastructure pretty much prevents hooking this type of equipment up in the home. Running your own circuit is one option but even then we are only ever going to run small proportion your equipment that way. Still impressive output!

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