Opponents of windmills adduce the dangers the spinning blades column to birds, the accident of accident due to storms, and the aliment appropriate to accumulate all those affective locations active smoothly. But what if a windmill lacked blades and didn't move at all? That's the abstraction abaft the Delft University of Technology's EWICON which looks added like a avant-garde section of art added than an eco-friendly antecedent of energy.
Also accepted as the Electrostatic Windenergy Convertor, the EWICON is composed of a animate anatomy abounding with criss-crossing metal tubes that absolution electrically answerable baptize droplets. As these drops are destroyed abroad by the wind a accepted is produced that can be acclimated to accomplish electricity. So there are basal mechanisms to fail, and the EWICON should run actually bashful even in abundant winds.
But the anatomy erected at the university is alone a baby calibration adaptation advised for testing the concept. Although it building over acceptance in its accepted form, it will allegedly accept to be even beyond to aftermath accessible amounts of energy, and to atone for the activity bare to pump the water. But if it works as promised, it seems like a far bigger another to the windmills we use now. [Delft University of Technology via designboom]
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