A Space Scientist Is Needed to Build a Wind Turbine

What a Russian space scientist knows about wind turbines? A lot, at least according to entrepreneur Rick Halstead, who is creating a wind turbine designed by a company of Russian engineers who used to work as space scientists.

Rick is working with the Russian equivalent of NASA, along with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories and its own engineering firm, Empire Magnetics.

Wind energy turbines have the equipment innovations in the structure of the vertical axis. They say they are much more efficient, quieter and easier to install than conventional turbines.

The turbines are called Wind Sail and can capture the air coming from any direction, just not from top down. The team used computer modeling and wind tunnels to test their design to perfection.

Halstead said that 20% of the cost of a small-scale wind turbine is the turbine itself, the other 80% belongs to the installation and permits.

Hopefully the experience in friction and aerodynamics of the space scientists really helps this turbine, and hopefully it is soon on the market.