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re: Giant Wind Turbines
I'm compulsively obsessed with the idea
SDF
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2/21/2007 5:55:18 PM
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But I'm not committed to it. :-)
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Giant Wind Turbines
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SDF
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2/20/2007 7:43:15 PM
re: Giant Wind Turbines
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TB
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2/23/2007 6:09:59 PM
Stagnation pressure
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SDF
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2/23/2007 11:34:52 PM
Thought on caves.
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REB
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2/23/2007 6:02:41 PM
A nice place for lunch
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podrock
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2/23/2007 8:52:45 PM
Crawdad chimneys
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Lee
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2/23/2007 6:36:10 PM
re: Wind chimneys
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SteveS
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2/23/2007 8:21:21 PM
What amazes me
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Lee
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2/23/2007 9:40:31 PM
re: What amazes me
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REB
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2/23/2007 9:54:58 PM
re: Is there anything wrong with this design.
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Johannes
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2/23/2007 4:36:01 AM
Vertical axis wind turbines are popular
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SDF
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2/23/2007 2:01:10 PM
re: 200 meters by 70 meters
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Johannes
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2/24/2007 11:24:18 PM
Stormblade
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podrock
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2/23/2007 1:59:59 AM
Interesting, but much smaller inlet diameter than what I had in mind.
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SDF
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2/23/2007 2:09:20 AM
changing wind direction
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podrock
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2/23/2007 2:13:25 AM
The problem with wind turbines so far.
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Bowser
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2/23/2007 1:56:56 AM
Reply deleted per poster's request.
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Mary Anne (moderator)
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2/23/2007 3:06:21 PM
people are already trying to build simmilar devices, called 'Solar Updraft Towers' I believe, in Australia
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Yeti
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2/22/2007 9:42:26 PM
'Solar Updraft Towers'
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SDG
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2/23/2007 12:27:26 AM
Make the tunnel parabolic in shape.
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Chief Warhawk
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2/22/2007 8:36:02 PM
re: Giant Wind Turbines
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gbaikie
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2/22/2007 12:27:03 PM
Tubes up a mountain?
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REB
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2/22/2007 3:56:37 PM
Aconcagua
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Bowser
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2/23/2007 2:08:13 AM
All good points
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SDF
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2/22/2007 1:04:08 PM
How about a geodescic structure?
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Peter Bruener
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2/23/2007 8:04:40 PM
ooops, geodesic
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Peter Bruener
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2/23/2007 9:24:58 PM
re: All good points
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gbaikie
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2/22/2007 9:11:20 PM
re: All good points
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SDF
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2/22/2007 11:16:39 PM
But I just remembered that I started this thread... Ha! So I'll do a back-of-the-envelope calculation....
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SDF
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2/23/2007 12:56:53 AM
re: But I just remembered that I started this thread... Ha! So I'll do a back-of-the-envelope calculation....
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gbaikie
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2/23/2007 8:09:02 AM
little trick I did there with the lateral bracing.
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SDF
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2/23/2007 1:03:26 AM
sorry but that's just not true.
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SDG
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2/22/2007 11:43:02 PM
What if there is no bedrock?
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SDF
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2/23/2007 1:11:50 AM
re: What if there is no bedrock?
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SDG
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2/25/2007 2:42:23 AM
re: Giant Wind Turbines
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REB
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2/21/2007 4:05:20 PM
Small point of information on patents
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TB
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2/23/2007 6:11:29 PM
re: Small point of information on patents
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REB
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2/23/2007 6:56:09 PM
re: patents
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TB
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2/23/2007 8:01:08 PM
I'm compulsively obsessed with the idea
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SDF
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2/21/2007 5:55:18 PM
I bet there is a grant you could get to cover R&D.
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REB
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2/21/2007 7:00:45 PM
I'm not a college professor.
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SDF
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2/21/2007 11:35:42 PM
Cost, time-to-build.
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SDF
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2/21/2007 1:55:12 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.