Magenn gets its MARS floating wind turbine off the ground
Written by admin on May 6, 2008 – 4:47 am -We’ve already seen some wind turbines designed to float offshore, but Canadian startup Magenn Power has some ideas of its own for getting wind power off the ground and, judging by its latest tests, it seems to be making some considerable progress. Its solution, dubbed the Magenn Air Rotor System (or MARS), is designed to float between 600 and 1,000 feet above the ground, and spin on the horizontal axis to generate electricity, giving it a power capacity of anywhere from 10 kilowatts to several megawatts depending on the configuration. While they’ve apparently yet to extract any juice from it, the company has at least recently gotten a prototype off the ground at a massive airship testing facility in North Carolina, and it has apparently now set its sights on an outdoor test, although there’s no word as to when that might go down. What’s more, as Greentech Media reports, while the company apparently plans to first market a 100 kilowatt version for industrial use, it also hopes to eventually enter the consumer market with smaller models that people “can take camping or use at their cottage,” although it admits that prospect has been put on the backburner for now.
[Via Protein]
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Archer Quinn documenting his free energy project, descent into madness
Written by admin on May 6, 2008 – 4:13 am -
Archer Quinn promised the world a working demonstration of his homemade free energy device called the “Sword of God” by June 20th, but it looks like we’re getting a sneak peek a little early: Quinn’s detailing the build on his blog, and it’s just about as pigs-in-trousers insane as you’d expect. It’s hard to even pick one quote as an example here — Quinn rails on about how he destroyed his first machine because he didn’t want Arab nations to starve without oil money but then a picture of Dubai’s opulence changed his mind, how “gravity wheels” are perpetual motion machines, how Nikola Tesla presented BS theories, how Australian Nazis are reading his email, and on and on. Most importantly, however, he continues to update on how his project is going. We’re not sure if he’s done yet or what (it’s not exactly easy to follow) but it looks like something’s ready — anyone want to bet if it works? We also have a very nice bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
[Thanks, Curt]
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