The Challenge
Carbon emission reduction is our world's biggest challenge.
In response to the global demand for an increase in clean energy, wind turbines are getting larger, but this alone is not the answer.
Large turbines demand increased use of scarce resources such as suitable land, sea and raw materials.
More raw materials + more land = higher costs, restrictions in available manufacturing space, a larger carbon footprint from increased manufacturing and transportation requirements, plus increased issues sourcing the extra materials.
Further problems include increased noise, shadow flicker, visual and environmental impact, radar interference and bird strikes.
The limited Space issue
It would take 150MW generated from Renewable Wind to power the
122,000 homes in Aberdeen.
Using conventional systems, this would require 50 x 3MW wind turbines,
and 25km2 to house a wind farm required to achieve this.
This small red dot as shown by the blue arrow represents a Windstorm wind farm of 0.25 km2, that can power more than Aberdeen producing 166 MW,
which is 8% more power than is produced by the previous
50 x 3MW conventional turbines whilst requiring 99% less space.
This is a power density of over 100x from 6 MW/km2 to 600 MW/km2.
A step change in wind power generation.
The Limited systems issue
The Windstorm unit utilises an enhanced turbine technology system, enabling the unit to produce 27x more mechanical power output when compared to existing un-enhanced wind turbine solutions.
When compared with existing Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) technology, the Windstorm system has the potential to generate comparable power output - but with much smaller turbine systems.
Our wind farms will have a much higher density of power output and will cover less than 1% of the land required by current HAWT wind farms.
Benefits
