Brisbane's Renewable Energy Solutions Australia (RESA) recently unveiled the first working installation of what is claimed to be the world's quietest wind turbine. The Eco Whisper Turbine is capable of producing 20kW of electricity despite being about half the height and having half the blade diameter of more familiar three-bladed solutions, and is able to automatically adjust the position of the blades to maximize wind capture.The video show it coming into the wind and accellerating. You can tell it's an Australian corporate production because no money has been spent on it whatsoever but it tells you what you need to know. If it had been US produced there would have been grand music underneath and a Yank narrating everything you are seeing while dot points popup all over the place. Instead, no sound, just a few titles. I like it but it won't go down well overseas I'm afraid. I especially like the guys just wandering around in the foreground, presumably while the MD takes a hand held video he then edits on his laptop. Want one.The wind turbine, not the MD.
Being exceptionally quiet, it might overcome the noise if not vibratiuon complaints that our so called government used to effectively ban wind farms from being anywhere near populations (i.e. the people who would use the electricity generated). They note that birds might even see these things. Any bird that doesn't say to itself when sighting these things 'WTF! I'm out of here!' probably deserves to go extinct. I can't work out what they remind me of though. Tea strainers?
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