Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes
Not atleast to the blades, this needs air to flow through it, wind turbines need air flow to push the blades. Exact opposite needs. Any flow through thing like this would cause either loss of power as the blade itself or source of drag as ancillary to the blades.
Like one could put one next to wind turbine, but question is their sense in it. Why not just use the turbines directly and put up extra turbines at expense of this machine.
They would have to have amazing full cycle efficiency to make it work. Not like that doesn’t happen at times like heat pump powered by electricity being better than direct electric heating. However as said they would have to show pretty amazing efficiency numbers and at scale. Just because it works in small scale in lab doesn’t mean it works at large scale or outside of sterile lab environment.
Not atleast to the blades, this needs air to flow through it, wind turbines need air flow to push the blades. Exact opposite needs. Any flow through thing like this would cause either loss of power as the blade itself or source of drag as ancillary to the blades.
Like one could put one next to wind turbine, but question is their sense in it. Why not just use the turbines directly and put up extra turbines at expense of this machine.
They would have to have amazing full cycle efficiency to make it work. Not like that doesn’t happen at times like heat pump powered by electricity being better than direct electric heating. However as said they would have to show pretty amazing efficiency numbers and at scale. Just because it works in small scale in lab doesn’t mean it works at large scale or outside of sterile lab environment.