www.maglevwindturbine.com Demo CGI for proposed 2GW Magnetic Leviatated wind Turbine. *Efficient Frictionless Power Generation with less maintenance, compared to HAWT. No oil change or replacement of the bearings, gears. Since, MAGLEV does NOT require such. ** Current bearing technology has forced wind turbine designers into horizontal spindle three bladed wind turbines. In this design the huge blades are connected to a spindle in the center. The bearings that support the spindle and control the pitch of the blades (which can be hundreds of feet long) see huge pitch-moment loading, some of which is manifest as torque energy that is focused through the center spindle. The target speed for the spindle is 18 or 20 rpm and the bearings holding the spindle are mounted in a huge casting which also contains a large gearbox stepping the speed up to 1800 to 2000 RPMs which allows for the proper surface speed relationship between the coils and magnets. It is necessary to invert or condition the current, which is expensive. This gearbox is full of many large bearings, gears and castings; for a 2 MW turbine the gearbox can easily weigh 30 tons. This gearbox needs to be mounted on the top of a pole more than 150 feet in the air and be able to support the turbine blades under full-force wind conditions. ***MAGLEV Power Generation, the pitch moment ratio is closer to 1-to-1 then the 100-to-1 as with a horizontal spindle design.
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Thats really kool.
A bunch of them along the railway of a maglev train could power it…
I like distributed power. Redundant components, smaller requirements on each, easier distribution of energy, etc etc.
How do you figure it will produce 2GW, or that it’s more efficient that prop-type?
looks like cheap advertise on the tv. Anyway the maglev system is really prespective of short distance instat of jets, anywy i heard the China will make 2 more lines, 1x 100km and one more 200km with maglev system. Soon the fast trains will overtake the market for short distance travel, 500km/h is really fast ground movment!
@JOCKATEO
“if they want wind and turn it into free power after? 2 currys i could power a whole city”
Certainly true, but it will only run it for one nanosecond
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wow! so huge….
I want one @))
This looks very ppromissing. Each one can replace 500 conventional wind turbines.
The size of that thing… do you really think it`s possible to magnetically levitate something that massive AND allow it to rotate? I don`t see how. What is there to stop it being shunted from its seat?
What’s size got to do with it?
i like this idea….
@Levinabox If, in fact that structure can be levitated by magnetic force, its surface area and weight are removed from the set of variables involved with friction.
@daveehl1034 That`s a pretty big if though… i understand what you are saying, but every magnet has a limit as to what repellant force it can apply. Of course, IF it can be levitated then that`s great, but in this instance i think it may be asking a lot. Plus, like i said before, what is there to resist the lateral forces of such an enormous wind load?.. I`m not shooting down the theory, the scale of this concept though seems quite far fetched.
Looks like something you’d see in Second Life. BTW that was a Monorail, NOT a train.
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Anyone played the game doom3 ? the creator of this commercial certainly did =D
The Soviets had these in the 1970s but they had to remove them due to the START II agreement. They actually emit more radiation than nuclear power plants do!! But there’s no problems concerning the disposal of contaminated waste.
Why waste this on wind? Put it under Niagara Fall and you will generate 2,000 gigawatt, which will solved all the North American energy problem, forever. Oppps, there is even left over to sell to Mexico.
its a merry-go-around on a bigger scale
Anything that stops those tall, scenery-blighting wind “farms” is welcome. Bring this thing on ASAP.
@spawndamien999 radiation? Please enlighten us.
windturbine made of solar panels 0_0???? double energy???
its not frictionless, there is still friction just not a lot. although a magnet barring is very efficient but its not first time its been thought of or used
@spawndamien999 how? a nuclear power plant decays atoms at their core!, this uses convection and converts it to conductive electricity, the only radiation given off is infrared entropy, as with just about any electric device
Stick some of these out in the ocean and you got tons of power. That way, even the people bitching about “radiation” can’t complain!
its a nice digital video of the concept. I would like to see an actual model that works where it’s ideas are actually working and producing, that’s next step.