One MagLev wind turbine can produce 1GW/h of electricity at 1c/kWh

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One maglev turbine can produce 1 GW of electricity (about 20% of Ireland’s total electricity requirement) or about the same as 1,000 conventional mid-capacity wind turbines.

Energy cost around 1c per kW/h. It transfers the kinetic energy produced by the wind without the friction associated with conventional turbine designs, in the same way as maglev trains work. It operates at low and high wind speeds – ie over 40 m/sec (144 km/h).

http://magturbine.com/maglevwindturbine.html

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Keeks

Pure Fiction

There is nothing to substantiate the claims. Untill you see a power curve from a test machine this is just someones concept. What looks good on paper isn't always good in practice.

Nice idea and brilliant if true, but I wish you would post something that would have a bit more substance to it than just pie in the sky

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Keeks wrote:

There is nothing to substantiate the claims.

If you do some googling around you will find that China has been working on the same technology as this company (jointly developed by Guangzhou Energy Research Institute under China’s Academy of Sciences and by Guangzhou Zhongke Hengyuan Energy Science & Technology). The first maglev generator was unveiled at the Wind Power Asia Exhibition 2006.

The potential engineering benefits of maglev in this type of application are not insubstantial – reduced maintenance and friction and simplicity of design.

It would be “nice” if we could download an ISO 9000 type spec. for every technology that one came across and was interested in. But this is the real world, where one has to make one’s own judgements and watch the progress or otherwise as developments unfold.

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zod

Strategic Vision

Maglev Wind Turbines will generate 25% of the U.S. and world’s power needs by 2020.

:eek:

djmc

40m/sec is like a hurricane average wind speed is around 7m/sec

cavedave

1) Uses all wind energy

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics

The site seems to be in Engrish. Does this mean that all the winds energy is used (which it can't be) or that all the energy used is from the wind, or that all energy can be gotten from all speeds of wind?

10-10-20

IMHO, any site which starts with the words "Executive Summary" is pie in the sky. Management fodder.