Concept #1 of a 3D printed vertical axis wind turbine. #morrisontech
@Brent_Day are you looking for stl files?
Teo_Jerah
January 17, 2017, 10:31pm
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Cool!..what are you using for the bearing(s)?!
@Fook_INGSOC We had an thread rod and some bearing left over from an old cupcake 3d printer. the thread rod is 1/4 dia and there is two bearing one at the top and bottom that measure .875 od resting in the 3d print.
@Morrison_Institute_o
Neodymium Bearing?!
Your VAWT just made me think of THIS!:
The turbosail or French turbovoile is a marine propulsion system using a sail-like vertical surface and a powered boundary layer control system to improve lift across a wide angle of attack. This allows the sail to power the boat in any direction simply by moving a single flap at the back of the sail, unlike conventional sails which have to be continually adjusted to react to changes in the relative wind.
The turbosail was first developed in a large scale application by Jacques-Yves Cousteau who...
A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors, sometimes known as rotor sails. German engineer Anton Flettner was the first to build a ship that attempted to tap this force for propulsion, and ships using his type of rotor are sometimes known as Flettner ships.
The Magnus effect is a force acting on a spinning body in a moving airstream, which produces a force perpendicular to both the di...
