Vertical axis windmills and turbines
Wind power's beginings
talks of Persia, and has illustration of 19th century panemone wind conversion device.
Persian mills
around 200 BC, plus [
same information
]
Persian mill
Mill in Pakistan
Eastern Kenya
- for pumping water.
Altamont Pass
, California, plus [
mirror
]
unidentified location
plus [
mirror
]
Molendinar
, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Wind turbines
with an emphasis on vertical axis designs.
Cap Chat
, Quebec, Canada.
Sandia National Laboratories
Tehachapi
, California.
Diagram
showing vertical and horizontal axis turbines.
Brushland
, Texas, on the
Conservation and Production Research Laboratory
facility.
DesignPower
turbine photo, with schematic illustration.
Sketches
of giromill, Savonius, and Darrieus rotors.
Satec Pty Ltd
- an Australian vertical axis turbine developer.
German technical page
Mitcham Common
, London.
Robert Green's
unusual windmill.
Energy from vortices
Carmarthen Bay
, Wales.
Windstar turbines
from the Wind Harvest Company.
Savonius rotor
for pumping water.
Wind tunnel video
Flowind Corporation EHD Series
Hampshire College
, Mass.
Burning Man 2000
Savonius rotor for pond aeration
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