Introducing

Breakthrough Technology

& the

Age of Wind Power

  • Surpassing Power

  • Unprecedented Efficiency

Introducing

Breakthrough Technology

& the

Age of Wind Power

  • Surpassing Power

  • Unprecedented Efficiency

Introducing

Breakthrough Technology

& the

Age of Wind Power

  • Surpassing Power

  • Unprecedented Efficiency

The Problem

The problem concerns the economics of wind power, particularly as electricity generated for commercial distribution. The past thirty years have seen little improvement in wind turbine efficiency, and, in this regard, wind turbine design seems to have reached technological stagnation. This circumstance has particular consequences for commercial wind power projects. For example, other, more efficient sources of power maintain an economical advantage over wind power which, therefore, must be provided public subsidies and incentives – or else, no investment in wind power projects. This, of course, means no wind power. Although wind power enthusiasts are reluctant to admit it, the Renewable Energy movement is hampered by the enduring stagnation of wind turbine technology.

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The Solution

The solution lies in a more efficient wind turbine design, one that converts wind into useful power with better economy. WindLode is a wind turbine of the vertical axis category, of original design and incorporating breakthrough technology, patents pending. WindLode achieves extraordinary power and unprecedented efficiency and holds the prospect of becoming the world’s predominant source of power. WindLode offers surpassing power, generated from wind, at costs on par with other, more economical, sources of power. As shown, WindLode achieves power at levels far surpassing the most powerful wind turbines currently offered (such as the Vestas V236, for example).

WindLode Offers

  • Extraordinary and surpassing power
  • Unprecedented efficiency and vastly improved economics
  • Cleanest power ever – no obnoxious noise, no murdered birds, no ugly landfills
  • WindLode can be installed on existing wind farms, with profits of the site thereby multiplied
  • Installation cost at 1/5 current average onshore costs, per rated MW
  • Power generation costs at 1/5 current average onshore cost, per MWh
  • Returns in multiples of current returns
  • Indefinite length of service
  • Renders current wind turbine technology obsolete.
Wind Turbine

WindLode Technology

WindLode overcomes, with advantage, the troublesome aerodynamics of vertical axis category wind turbines. WindLode’s extraordinary power is achieved through inventive features providing surpassing power and unprecedented efficiency, as demonstrated herein. A scaling/rating exercise shows a multi-megaWatt rating for WindLode exceeding twice that of the most powerful wind turbine currently available, the Vestas V236.           

WindLode generates power in the usual way, rotating under the impetus of lift generated at airfoil blades. Otherwise, WindLode departs from the usual, with aspects either inventive or unconventional. The turbine itself appears as unconventional, being an annular framework rotatively supported underneath and much dissimilar to the Darrieus turbine, the norm of VAWT design.* Thus, WindLode presents to the eye a cylindrical assembly of vertical blades, not exceeding sixty feet in height.

*Note: The Darrieus approach of supporting the turbine centrally has been the design basis for all large VAWT prototypes.  For an informative discussion of VAWT prototypes, see “A historical review of vertical axis wind turbines rated 100 kW and above”, Mollerstrom et al. There is some confusion concerning VAWT nomenclature. The eggbeater (aka troposkein) VAWT configuration and the straight bladed H-type Vawt, both, are included under the original Darrieus patent. A lift-powered, vertical-blade wind turbine that is supported centrally is, in principle, a Darrieus turbine.

WindLode’s inventive technology was achieved in an effort of several years duration, through research and design conducted  by the WindLode team. The specification comprises some seventy pages. The Background of the Invention is presented here in an edited version. A brief description of WindLode technology:

  1. Annular Framework– WindLode eschews the Darrieus approach of a centrally supported turbine and adopts an annular framework for suspending the blades. This unconventional turbine structure  has several advantages, all of which translate into greater power and higher efficiency. The annular framework consists of an upper member and a lower member, with a blade suspended between the two members and pivotally coupled, at either end, to the inventive blade mounting system, itself secured to the framework and the framework supported underneath. 
  2. Inventive Single-Camber Blade – WindLode technology allows the deployment of a high efficiency single-camber airfoil blade. The inventive blade is operable, being operated to accommodate the problematic Vawt aerodynamics which otherwise preclude the deployment of a single-camber blade. The blade is operated through a system of controls responsive to measurements of wind. A multiplicity of high-efficiency blades is the basis of the unprecedented power of WindLode (See scaling/rating exercise)
  3. Inventive Blade Mounting System–  WindLode is spared the ill consequences of load through its inventive blade mounting system, which system absorbs and dampens load and allows load to be converted to power. With its capacity to recover load, WindLode offers a power system of unprecedented efficiency. The inventive blade mounting system is crucial; without the relief against load afforded by the blade mounting system, the turbine should soon wear out in generating multi-megaWatt power. Load recovered for power much enhances turbine efficiency.
  4. An original System of Controls optimizes the efficiency of each turbine blade, accommodating a blade to vagaries of wind and so optimizing turbine efficiency.
Rating Exercise
Aerodynamics
Background of the Invention
Cost Per Rated megaWatt

For Investors

This concerns a breakthrough development in wind power, specifically, a vertical axis wind turbine of original design and incorporating inventive features, patents pending, and given the name WindLode. WindLode represents an advance of first importance in wind power technology. The present object is to develop and commercialize WindLode, an object involving the expenditure of several million dollars to build and test a prototype.

Investor Questions

1) Investor: You say “an advance of first importance in wind power technology”, but WindLode is only an unproven invention. Why should WindLode be given serious consideration as an investment?

Answer: WindLode’s potential is revealed through a study of its aspects of design. This being done, it becomes evident that WindLode holds surpassing advantages, particularly in terms of power and efficiency, and that WindLode renders obsolete current wind turbine design. It follows, therefore, that WindLode holds the prospect of exceedingly rich gains.

2) Investor: You say that the advantages of WindLode are confirmed by “study of its aspects”. What are those aspects?

Answer: Design aspects are briefly summarized at WindLode Technology, above. WindLode design is presented fully in a seventy-page specification. This document should be studied by a person with competence in the various issues of science and engineering presented therein. For example, issues of WindLode design involve the aerodynamics of lift (see Aerodynamics link).

3) Investor: Do you have a comprehensive plan for developing and promoting your invention?

Answer: The plan is to demonstrate the advantages of WindLode through this website. These advantages cannot be ignored and it may be expected that advocates of Renewable Energy will endorse and proclaim WindLode. There is the likelihood that the manufacture of WindLode will commence with a large backlog of orders.

4) Investor: What is the time frame for all of this?

Answer: A prototype should be tested within twelve months of funding. An anticipatory market will be informed of the test results. Manufacturing arrangements will be in place and orders will be filled accordingly.

5) Investor: The Rating Exercise computes a power rating that strains credulity. Can you substantiate it?

Answer: The rating exercise is a matter of physics and math and therefore may be repeated independently. The extraordinary power of WindLode is due to its unprecedented efficiency, that is, in converting wind to power, which efficiency is due to WindLode’s inventive design, described in the seventy-page document.

6) Investor: The referred “seventy-page document” is not on this website. How may it be accessed?

Answer: The document is not posted because it holds proprietary information. It may be reviewed through special arrangement.

7) Investor: You claim “rich gains” regarding WindLode’s commercial prospects. Can you put this in more concrete terms?

Answer: Using the U. S. market for utility-scale wind turbines as an example, Windlode offers a prospective return of several billions of dollars, per annum. This market may be put above $20 billion, annually, and WindLode should gain all of that. In addition, WindLode bears the prospect of competing with steam-powered turbines, as a source of economical power. By these considerations, wind power projects can be expected to multiply in the U.S., with WindLode supplying the entire growth of that industry.

8) Investor: Has a Due Diligence been performed, respecting all of this?

Answer: It should be understood that a comprehensive study of the referred seventy-page document is sine qua non to an evaluation of WindLode’s prospects. From the investment standpoint, this is the Due Diligence to be performed. The advantages and practicability of WindLode design being confirmed, it should then be considered that WindLode technology merits a valuation of at least 100 billion dollars.

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