Will you wonder how smarter the Vertical Wind Turbines?

Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources for power generation. Once you imagine a wind turbine you might probably think of an usual wind turbine. But some of the most recent models on the market are Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs). It’s main rotor shaft sets transverse to the wind which it do not need to be oriented towards the wind, it responds to wind which is coming from any direction.

The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas is currently the world’s largest wind turbine maker, representing over 16% of the world wind turbine market.

These VAWTs come in 4 models;

Darrieus model used to be the most significant model, it is made of blades revolving around the vertical axis. Each blade gets hit by the wind at different angles. They make use the airflow design so they generate the lift to turbine rotate

But VAWTs are less reliable and less efficient. This makes less suite for large scale energy production but the field is still on the development because these are perfect for residential energy production, especially VAWTs are suggested as a better choice for cities and isolated semi-urban areas.

Comparative to horizontal turbines VAWTs can keep closer together, good performance under the weak and unstable wind, no noise, VAWTs a viable, dependable, and affordable power generation technology for many low and decentralized power applications. It continues to drive engineers to try new things and continue to make new improvements.

It is better at places like on roads, gardens, parks, workplaces, houses, especially roads (highways) to capture the flow of winds generated by moving vehicles.

Solar panels can be located on the top of the turbine to provide the extra electricity to be captured. According to calculations around the world,  it can generate approximately 1kW of power per hour and it suppose to be fulfill the energy needs of two house-holds.

Hopefully we will see these things just like we do with solar panels without damaging the gift of nature and to produce the energy all around the world.

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