Wind Turbine Works With a Breeze

New Wind Technology

Source:  US Army Corps of Engineers

Green Energy Gamechanger from Army Corps of Engineers
This is a new breakthrough in wind turbine technology inspired by Venetian blinds.  It can generate electricity from a breeze too light for standard wind turbines.  It harvests electricity from gentle breezes under 9 mph.

New Patent
It's the invention of a team at the US Army Corps of Engineers.  They just received a patent for it.  It's a prototype device they believe can be scaled up to provide wind power to communities in low wind areas.

Renewable Energy from a Breeze
The device consists of eight adjustable elastic tension gradient strips mounted vertically to PVC tubes at the top and bottom.  A slight breeze against the strips causes them to move and push a copper induction coil at the base of each to move along a magnet filled pipe and create a current.  The team is looking to further develop the renewable energy technology for commercial uses.

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