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       Nautilus Shell Wind Turbine 
       By: AGelbert Date: June 3, 2014, 1:10 am
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       This wind turbine will power your apartment without keeping you
       up at night
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       By Holly Richmond
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       The nautilus shell took time off from fitness-namesake duty to
       inspire The Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine, which we are renaming
       The Not-So-Little Turbine That Could. Dutch firm The Archimedes
       designed the swirl-shaped windmill to be way quieter and more
       efficient than others (plus, it’s blue!). The firm says the
       turbine can generate 80 percent of the maximum possible energy
       yield, a big jump from the typical 25 to 50 percent. Hot damn.
       PSFK thinks it’ll be great for your apartment, but at five feet
       wide, it might not exactly fit on your Brooklyn fire escape. At
       least the noise won’t wake you up in the middle of the night,
       which is one of the big drawbacks of most residential wind
       turbines/randy apartment neighbors.
       Here are the Liam’s specs:
       The Liam F1 generates an average of 1,500 kilowatt-hours of
       energy [per year] at a wind-speed of 5 m/s [16.4 ft/s], which
       resembles half of the power consumption of a common household.
       If you feel like spending 8 minutes looking at wind turbines
       (bonus: set to the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song!),
       there’s also this:
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       So get out $5,450 in pennies — the Liam goes on sale July 1!  ;)
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       Agelbert NOTE: Amory Lovins has been talking about this for
       years in pump technology. Now the wind people are finally
       getting in it.   ;D why is this a big deal? Because it flips
       Reynolds numbers and turbulent flow and laminar aerodynamics
       theories on their heads as to efficiency and power output. The
       Fibonacci pattern of wind vanes completely blows away the
       competition [color=red]in wind to power output from other types
       of wind generators.
       This is the kind of doubling and tripling of efficiency type
       breakthrough that will make mincemeat of dirty fossil fuel
       internal combustion machine energy.
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