That looks like it would be hard to manufacture and transport at the size requirements that traditional blades are made. It’s already a massive pita to transport the traditional blades. I’m sure we’ll figure it out eventually, but that’s probably the current reasoning.
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skulblaka@startrek.website 7 months agoThe currently existing design of wind turbines is incredibly stupid anyway, I have no idea how we landed on that design. It’s one of the least effective designs possible for it’s use case. We should be using spiral turbines.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Yooo that looks sick as hell! Why aren’t we using that?
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can you imagine how heavy one of those would be at full scale?
variants@possumpat.io 7 months ago
That’s too futuristic and only belongs on other planets like mars
Labrad0r@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The current three blade design of utility-scale turbines achieves about 80% of the Betz limit, are relatively efficient in materials for their output, and the blades’ pitch can be adjusted to control their speed in varying conditions (eg. during storms). I wouldn’t call their design “incredibly stupid”.