[Newsbot]

Title: EWICON bladeless wind turbine generates electricity using charged water droplets
Category: Environmental
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2013-04-03 14:45:35

[QBall]

Interesting. Of course no where in the article or in the Youtube video does it state exactly how much energy is produced by the device. A rather important piece of information to leave out.

[Lemmy]

Baby steps.

[peck420]

http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:81221f03-9d46-4c7c-a5b0-b859a26f7d04/

EWICON feasibility study (click 'A_Winters_EWICON.pdf (17.7 MB)' to download)

Section 6 (pgs 53-60 in the pdf) is the complete EWICON system study.

Based on current tests, it nets around 1w/sq metre (page 60).

[Jonny_C]

Fascinating... and indicative of just how creative energy research is. One of these days a small development like this might lead to a major breakthrough.

[Zipperfish]

There's no shortage of energy out there.