Featured in Popular Science alongside GE and Google on products that they see as game changers: www.popsci.com Fast Company Magazine has this to say about the Jellyfish: www.fastcompany.com Jellyfish Wind Power Concept: What if you could plug renewable wind energy into the wall just like a blender or a toaster? Instead of using power, a wind appliance actually generates it! For more details visit: www.clariantechnologies.com Smart-Grid Enabled: With onboard Wi-Fi/WiMAX the Jellyfish is also smart-grid enabled. Today, wind and solar-powered homes are operated as autonomous points within the local electrical grid. However, they are an overlooked, yet important electrical power resource. If instead, each were harnessed collectively and tied interactively with the local utility grid as a Point-to-Grid (P2G) power generator, or even regulator, considerable economic, environmental and system reliability benefits are possible. By itself, each of these power sources is indeed small in its impact on the power system. In the aggregate, however, the economic value of P2G power is significant, more than enough to offset the initial cost of installing the required control hardware and integrating these systems with the local utility grid. Equally important, the necessary regulatory and energy distribution infrastructure, and hardware components to enable a number of different types of P2G-based systems are already in place today. The convergence of existing distributed electric power …
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But, does that actually work? i mean, If I turn my blender’s motor with a hand crank while it is plugged in will I be generating electricity? Or is this some idea to make that work.
Yep that’s correct – Tesla first discovered this. In the case of your blender you’d need to turn it at more than 3600 rpm, but here the motor is a slightly different configuration that runs at much lower RPM – but exact same concept.
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And if i didnt understand what you were saying. and instead you were talking about moving the motor yourself who would want to stand there making a motor turn?
If I understood your question correctly, it turns out an AC induction motor can also be used as a generator. The wind in this case spins the motor FASTER than the motor’s synchronous speed (this is managed by an onboard controller) and thus generates electricity. Google around for more details on the principles involved. Also be sure to read the other comments and responses – you’ll find similar questions/answers related to the principles involved
very best
Where can I get one? I have been thinking about this for about a year, but never had anyone to do a fun project like this.
Great design… congratulations on your media coverage, I hope you get the support you deserve to reach production. Great work!
When can we buy one?
Awesome! We are going to help you win this!
If the price is right I would buy two or three.
The jellyfish hits the markets next year
It only costs $400! That is a bargain!
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when the power is off does this still pump mower into the grid or does it disconnect?
Looking on the website for 10 sec. will tell you it has safety features that allow it to shut off the power when it detects an outage.
What a Crock!
I like this — hope it’s available soon!
How many K/W can produce this wind generator?
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How many KW produce this?
How many KW produce this?
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Looks like this is dead. No new info or updates in a long time. Sad. I was ready to line my roof with them.
but u must have a bridge diode, otherwise the generator would work as a motor if u plug it in directly, or is there something im missing here