Shawn Frayne invented an inexpensive non turbine wind generator called the wind belt. I have no specs other than what you see on the video. I imagine it’s use on the roof of an electric car but obviously it can be used anywhere there is wind. The benefit is that it is very inexpensive to build as opposed to a standard turbine wind generator. The fan simulates the wind which moves the belt which moves the magnets through the coils to make electricity to power the clock and LEDs. I don’t know how much the output voltage is. Help Stop The Suppression Of Inventions www.panacea-bocaf.org
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well hell, if you are going to do a wind belt, might as well make a wind turbine instead… wouldn’t you think?
@kamikazamaster i’m sorry the one you ‘builded’ didn’t work, check the user error manual
The idea here was to make something that only costs pennies as opposed to hundreds of dollars to build
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The inventor’s mind set was focused on providing electricity to poor people in 3rd world countries who only earn pennies a day.
i’m wondering, wouldn’t it be more efficient to put a coil in the lenght in the middle as you get the most travel of the string tthere. otherwise seems like i good idea but is it more efficient than a turbine? and wouldn’t that flutter thing need to have wind moving at a very paricular speed?
That’s a novel approach I must say. Kudos!
But something flapping in the wind is much less efficient than something which the wind causes to spin.
Turbines gain momentum.
This loses all its momentum each time it flutters.
Yes, good observation. I imagine that a middle coil could be accomplished with enough ingenuity.
referring to the efficiency. Flutter is accomplished with far less wind than a turbine but turbine motors vary, some have ball bearings & others have magnetic floating bearings which operate with less wind but the motors easily overheat & burn up with speed so compare cost & reliability of each unit, turbine vs super cheap wind belt
I can’t image this would scale up very well.
This is genius. If I had money to invest it would be in this.
I could think of many places of use but for know an object that helps us get around “”car” could be best suited for recharging the battery, almost for ever!
I agree. It would be SUPER LOUD! If anyone has ever strapped a ladder down to a truck and hit the highway they know what I’m talking about. This would just be WAY too loud, and it loses all of it’s momentum everytime it stops where a spinning blade never does.
it would be amazing if that generator can power that electric fan your using!!!
you could probably incorporate some sort of piezoelectric material into the ribbon to increase it’s efficiency
@hammer663tube
“the fan uses more energy than this? thing is making.
Total crap”
LOL, well yeah. Its a wind powered generator, not a perpetual motion machine.
I think @hammer663tube is wondering if the fan is included.
Clever, but the buzzing noise would be significant if you head alot of them together
great machine . good to see someone is thinking out side of the box . could you atatch this device to the leading edge of a windmill blade perhaps? it should boost the out put of the blade quite well.
I love the Guitar instead. Sounds more in Pentatonic
Enough with the stupid music and explain it already.
Does it create energy from bullshit too?
way to think out of the box
same principle as a guitar string vibrating over a pickup… cool
@lolerdelol rememeber that the coil will resist so if you put it in the middle you will effect the flutter,,, it propably wont flutter
yeah the effiency is showed in the video fan is plugged in to the wall and all it can power is val clock c’mon. And yeah i understant it’s “invented” for free wind energy but I don’t think this would power entire town because the payload will be poor making this larger
@Dodexas What the inventor had in mind were poor countries where maybe they want to charge a battery to run a radio or a light bulb at night. It’s really cheap to build as to where solar panels are very expensive even in the US & way out of reach for people in other countries who may earn $3 per day.
I see no large industrial use for these as they would be way too noisy, but then so are windmills. People who live near windmills complain of the constant motor humm,this flutter would be maddening
“On the roof of an electric car” lol. You probably use more power to overcome the extra drag produced by that contraption than what you gain from it.