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GE launched a program called EcoROTR below. This full scale retrofit experiment yielded a 3% increase in performance by deflecting wind flow away from the hub, gaining a small amount of torque. Even this small gain is being touted as a state of the art game changer.
This is important because it demonstrates the feasibility of adding our wind turbine to existing turbines as a retrofit. Simply replacing GE’s dome hub with the Waters turbine would obviously produce considerably higher gains, potentially more than doubling output rather than adding only 3%. In addition, it would allow existing turbines to provide meaningful power and maintains similar rpms at far lower wind speeds than are currently possible.
At 120 times higher efficiency, the Waters turbine can also completely replace existing wind turbine blades with a much smaller, lower cost design.
No noise. No bird strikes, No complex delivery or site logistics.
GE launched a program called EcoROTR below. This full scale retrofit experiment yielded a 3% increase in performance by deflecting wind flow away from the hub, gaining a small amount of torque. Even this small gain is being touted as a state of the art game changer.
This is important because it demonstrates the feasibility of adding our wind turbine to existing turbines as a retrofit. Simply replacing GE’s dome hub with the Waters turbine would obviously produce considerably higher gains, potentially more than doubling output rather than adding only 3%. In addition, it would allow existing turbines to provide meaningful power and maintains similar rpms at far lower wind speeds than are currently possible.
At 120 times higher efficiency, the Waters turbine can also completely replace existing wind turbine blades with a much smaller, lower cost design.
No noise. No bird strikes, No complex delivery or site logistics.