College To Host First Grid-Scale Vertical Shaft Wind Turbine
College and Environmental Technologies LLC is going be building the first large-scale vertical shaft wind turbine on the Sullivan County Community College campus in Loch Sheldrake, NY. They has been designing this their ETC-LU vertical shaft wind turbine for almost 20 years and have several prototypes already erected. The wind turbines planned to produce 1.25 megawatts of electricity and should be constructed by early next year and operational by the spring. The wind turbine will stand at about 111feet tall and produce twice the electricity output of a traditional wind turbine at a third of the size. It will also be relatively quite and be friendly to flying animals like birds and bats.
Vertical-Shaft Wind Turbine
The ETC-LU vertical shaft wind turbine does not look anything like the traditional fan blades wind turbine you are used to seeing. The company claims that their wind turbine is the most efficient, trouble free and much more cost-effective. Under the same wind conditions as normal wind turbines and same generator capacity, it can produce twice as much electricity as traditional models. What makes this wind turbines so great is that it can accept wind from any angle and adjust their angle as wind hits the retractable blades. This new design prevails over traditional version because:
- More Durable - Weight distributed evenly over entire devices, so there are fewer damages.
- Quieter - Only 65 decibels are emitted making it fairly quite.
- Smaller - Lowers cost of maintenance as well as more a viable option for more locations.
If these perform as well as the company says they do, this new wind turbine design could be revolutionary for the renewable energy industry. Not only could they be more efficient, but this could make wind turbines a realistic option for smaller areas where you would normally not think wind turbines could be put. Just imagine wind turbines hovering over city buildings and college campuses across America being run of of wind energy. It starts out at Sullivan County Community College and hopefully spreads throughout the nation. To find more details about this new technology, check out Environmental Technologies LLC website.
