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new wind turbine blade design

new wind turbine blade design

RE: new wind turbine blade design

Reinvented the pinwheel?

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RE: new wind turbine blade design

Seen something similar (the photo) somewhere else... possibly on one of those "green" machine sites. I know we had it on a thread somewhere... something about compressed air buoyancy systems...

JMW
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RE: new wind turbine blade design

I've seen very similar in gas compressors, high speed turbine/propeller boats and several other high end fluid movement applications.

<<A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend
will be sitting beside you saying " Damn that was fun!" - Unknown>>

RE: new wind turbine blade design

And on the classified tail of boomers.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&amp;cp=ryqjnb4s57d5&amp;style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&amp;scene=10352732&;encType=1

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

RE: new wind turbine blade design

(OP)
those are called J blades

Steven C
Senior Member
ThirdPartyInspections.com

RE: new wind turbine blade design

There you went and done it.  Now I have to shoot you.

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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/

RE: new wind turbine blade design

(OP)
ooppsss!

Steven C
Senior Member
ThirdPartyInspections.com

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