This post falls outside food retail energy efficiency but is very interesting. Magnets and windings should be mounted on wheel shapes comprising the wing tip perimeter of wind turbines. This will increase both generating capacity and electro-mechanical resistance. By activating an increasing number of magnet/coil generation zones as wind power increases the generation of electricity can optimized across different wind speeds/powers.
Wind turbines will exist on the top of electric cars because the windshield creates a zone of dense high speed wind. I imagine a cylinder shaped turbine embedded in the roof to shield the returning blades from the oncoming wind. This will extend the range of electric cars and reduce battery stress.
An excellent place for wind farms are “pump storage projects”. These large manmade elevated lakes near natural bodies of water were built in the fifties to help balance the power grids. By pumping water up from the lower lake to the upper lake at night when the demand for energy is low this allows for the water to flow from the upper lake to the lower lake through an electricity generating turbine during the day when the demand for energy is high. This is sort of like a giant capacitor. Advantages include:
· Turbines on top of an elevated lake can have shorter mounting towers
· Wind at the top of the hill surrounding the manmade lake has greater density (wind power)
· Pre-existing grid connections and power distribution towers
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