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The latest design of a chimney-shaped wind turbine by the American Sheerwind company generates six times more electricity than traditional blade turbines. It is also safer and will not cause bird deaths.
Tencent Science News (Youyou/Translation) According to the British Daily Mail, wind turbines are considered an environmentally friendly way to generate electricity, but due to their blade design, they can easily kill a large number of birds. Currently, the latest design of the Invelox wind turbine by the American Sheerwind company is a peculiar-looking Invelox wind turbine, which does not use a blade system, but is composed of a chimney-shaped structure and a pipe.
The Invelox wind turbine can guide wind flow at a speed of 3.7 kilometers per hour into the chimney-shaped structure, transmit it to the pipe, and finally generate electricity. Through pipe transmission, the narrow part of the end pipe can form a "jet effect", which will increase the wind flow speed, but the pressure is lower.
The technology creates a kinetic energy called the "Venturi effect" that then turns the generator to work. Sheerwind points out that the turbine can work at wind speeds as low as 3.7 kilometers per hour due to the special Venturi effect system.
At the same time, this turbine can generate 6 times the electricity of traditional blade wind turbines. Sheerwind says that the chimney-shaped wind turbine can be scaled down and placed on farms, industrial areas, and even personal gardens. It can reduce the dangers posed by blade turbines to birds and bats.
The device is safer to install on land and has lower costs and maintenance costs. Sheerwind says that this turbine generator is comparable to natural gas and hydroelectric power because it costs less than 1 cent to generate 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity.
