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Ocker · **Posted: 16-12-2008 , 10:12 PM** #16

I can't for the life of me find the website, but I recall seeing a turbine in New Mexico that was supposed to be very efficient. It was a pole with just two yokes which caught the wind. If you looked down at it from above it was like the ying yang drawing The windcatcher came down about ten feet along the pole. Apparently it lost very little in the generating process as against a loss of about 60% in the conventional ones. Just had a thought. If anyone remembers the old air extractors on factory buildings. They were like that but very slim. (Yoke=highly technical term) !!!

	Posted: 16-12-2008 , 10:12 PM #16
Ocker Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Beyond the Black Stump in Galway Posts: 189	wind I can't for the life of me find the website, but I recall seeing a turbine in New Mexico that was supposed to be very efficient. It was a pole with just two yokes which caught the wind. If you looked down at it from above it was like the ying yang drawing The windcatcher came down about ten feet along the pole. Apparently it lost very little in the generating process as against a loss of about 60% in the conventional ones. Just had a thought. If anyone remembers the old air extractors on factory buildings. They were like that but very slim. (Yoke=highly technical term) !!!