quietrevolution wind turbine

  • July 31, 2013
  • 271 Downloads
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  • Blender 2.6x
  • Render: Blender Internal
  • Creator: mam711
  • License: CC-BY
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Description:

Small-footprint high-tech wind turbine, to scale.

blender render windmills

Comments:

  • bunnyman profile picture
    bunnyman

    I like the model a lot, innovation and design is very important - I have just 1 criticism of the design - perhaps you should add a chicken wire cage around the rotating part, because apparently a large number of birds die every year from wind farms after gliding and become trapped in a slipstream. Also the standard distance to look for dead birds was only 20m for the windmills, they can send bird corpses a lot further in reality.

    Written August 01, 2013
  • mam711 profile picture
    mam711

    I didn't invent this; it's a real thing. And they're apparently monitoring for bird strikes, and none have ever happened. Apparently, when the rotor really gets spinning, it looks pretty solid to birds.

    http://www.quietrevolution.com/qr5/faqs-technical.htm

    Edited August 01, 2013
  • YellowPanda profile picture
    YellowPanda

    Neat! How big is thing supposed to be?

    Written August 09, 2013
  • mam711 profile picture
    mam711

    The rotor is 5 meters tall. The mast can vary; this one is 9 meters. The model is to-scale.

    http://www.quietrevolution.com/qr5/qr5-turbine.htm

    Written August 10, 2013