As our dependence on fossil fuels will be reduced, we will need new ways of harnessing renewable energies. Actually, there are lots of ways to get energy - wind, solar, wave and tidal will replace oil in the future. The problem is that we have to find efficient and cheaper options to get power from the sun or from the wind.
Home Energy is a Swedish company which has designed a new wind turbine that is very silent and it’s based on six curved rotor blades attached to a rotor hub at both ends. The new and futuristic wind turbine is called Energy Ball and when it rotates it looks like a sphere and it creates a wind flow which resembles the rapids of a river - this wind flow pattern is called the Venturi effect.
Thanks to the Venturi Effect, the Energy Ball is more efficient aerodynamically as it also catches low-winds to generate electricity. Although the costs seem to be cheaper than for a conventional wind turbine, for the moment we don’t know when Home Energy will start manufacturing and when they will deliver the first Energy Ball wind turbines.
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September 7th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Great idea. The problem is constancy of current. Very few (probably none) devices can run on such variability in power supply. So we then need a battery technology to store the energy converted by the wind generator–but current battery technology doesn’t allow for the type of storage needed to power our daily lives. As a supplement to the constant power supplied by our current electrical generation systems–I hope it helps reduce dependence upon fossil fuels and nuclear steam generation plants. I bet these things are fun too!
September 7th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Cool!! how can I get one?
September 7th, 2008 at 5:54 am
Really cool device. I live in the Mid-West where wind turbine “farms” are starting to become more popular because of the amount of wind we get. However, the only problem for us is the infrastructure needed to transport the electricity isn’t available.
A more inexpensive device like this might make it easily available for rural areas, like farmers, and also allow more funds to be allocated to creating a electricity transport infrastructure.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
how about fixing a large cone at the venturi entrance??
who’s devising this windmill,,could you please provide me their name and address?
I would like to share some of my thoughts and (experience) with them
September 8th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
As our dependence on fossil fuels will be reduced, we will need new ways of harnessing renewable energies. Actually, there are lots of ways to get energy - wind, solar, wave and tidal will replace oil in the future. The problem is that we have to find efficient and cheaper options to get power from the sun or from the wind.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
there is such a battery, the power grid. Sell the energy back on the power grid when you are not using it and use the power grid when you need it.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
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September 15th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Awsome!! This looks so cool. I’ll show this to my son that’s 11 he will love this He very into this kind of stuff always thinging of way’s to make this a better place. I would love more infomation on this Thanks Kim kim@hugamonkey.com
September 16th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Sounds efficient however will it work in a city like Detroit.
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I get really excited when I see inexpensive and efficient renewable energy technology. I can’t wait until someone brings that to market.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“Energy Ball är av plug-in typ. Med direkt nätanslutning är det bara att sticka in kontakten i ett vanligt eluttag och all producerad ström kommer till direkt nytta. Enklare kan det inte vara.”
According to the this, the “Ball” is really easy to use, just plug it into your houses network with a normal outlet. So, I gues it delivers some electricity to your house, while you’d get what more you need from the main power grid.
Only problem with this is that you won’t be able to store the energy, but if you’ve only got one of them it won’t give you nearly enough electricity for the “normal house”.
They also stated that the biggest version (210cm diameter) will at most give around 50% of what you need for the normal house, but I gues that number will be way less with little wind.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
How efficient is it in a place like Atlanta where the wind doesn’t blow very much? Will I have high storage costs with inefficient batteries? I can certainly partly go back to the energy matrix of two centuries ago, but items like this will appear on an internet that I won’t have the energy to run.What are the repair costs? I lived for 3 years near Banning California which has had wind turbines for over 30 years and about 25% are off line continuously.
November 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I find the Energy Ball a very briliant invetion, I would like to use this oppotunity
to ask for a donation of the equipment. for an orphanage home in Lusaka Zambia.with your donation you will be giving chance to 40 children.
Sir If you made this request possible, you would be Helping and giving chance to 40 orphans for a better life and future.
your responce shall be hihly apreciated.
Yours faithfully,
Edwell Sichone
November 6th, 2008 at 9:32 am
The thing about it is that you don’t really have to store the electricity. If you have it running through your house, it will power what it can. However, if you’re running less wattage than the ball is producing, the excess electricity goes into the local power grid and is distributed elsewhere. If you have enough excess, the power company will pay you instead. Same thing happens with solar panels.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
the ggood thing is it got me an a on my project!!!!!!!