Geoff Goeggel
I have nothing against you, but you just need to be realistic. Right now, the world is already ‘on its way’ to saving $2T a year with renewables, but most of that is solar because most people don’t live where it’s very windy.
You say 250 foot tall, but that says nothing about the power output. The wind turbines have to be tall, about 150 meters or 500 feet to put the propeller up high where there is more wind. The taller ones harvest more wind for more % of the time than shorter ones.
I need to do some calculations. The US generates about 1.3 terawatts. If each generates 1 megawatt, it would require 1.3 million generators that put out full power 100% of the time. But wind turbines average about 27% so figure 4 times 1.3 million or 5.2 million devices.
You have to figure out how much torque will be needed to generate a megawatt at 12 or so RPM. That’s a lot of torque – the shaft of a wind turbine is a big thick piece of steel. Your device, but especially the base, has to be able to handle that torque. So it’s going to have to be very strong. How is it going to be light enough to float like a balloon??
