Wind Heating System
Heat for cold and windy placesUsing our revolutionary thermoelectric converter you can heat your home using wind power.
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The wind contains a lot of energy, often expressed in Watt/m2 . This energy usually converted into mechanical energy (torque) and then electric enery using a generator. The torque can also be used to do a number of other things, for instance, drive a heat pump or compress air for storage.
When you need to heat your home, you could use both the mechanical energy or compressed air instead of first going to electricity. This creates a much cheaper system with lots of possibilities. Heating your home with wind power is straightforward. The windpower is converted into heat, but much like in a greenhouse where UV can enter but IR can not exit it matters a lot where the heat is generated, inside a closed system or outside of it.
Out heat generating systems use standard wind turbine models but adapted to releasing heat where it can not easily escape. It can then be used at a later time or converted into other kinds of energy.
The use of heating oil can be reduced or even halted if your location is windy when it's cold. The coast of Alaska is a good location for this reinvented technology.
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Electrical wind heating
Even going to electric first has advantages, as you don't need the inverter because you don't care about the quality of the voltage. But even if you do and you make a multi purpose system, it can be profitable!
Taos wind
Wind Turbine Heat Pump
Using mechanical power to drive a heat pump is one way to heat using wind, and it can multiply the efficiency of the turbine by a factor four or so.
Blog site
Friction Heating
A generalization of the wind heating concept is friction heating. It is the conversion of torque into heat. This can be done using any souce of work, be it water pressure, wind or other.
Asian hydro to heat project
R&D
We are now developing knowledge on wind to heat conversion. To achieve that we are looking to develop a torque to heat converter, first to demonstrate the principle and draw more interest Then when a porper wind to torque conveter (turbine) is identified that can be manufactured cheaply the two can be combine to specifications.
Lab test with vacuum insulated heat container and stirring device.
The above setup has a motor running at 8,43 volt, without water the current is 130 mA, with water it is 250 mA, so this makes the power absorbed by the water about 1,011 Watt.
In order to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius one needs 4.2 Joules, so 4.2/1.011 seconds of stirring.
The container has about 675 ml = 675 gramms of water, which means that to heat it 1 degree would take 675 * 4,2 = 2835 Joule which takes about 47 minutes.
Torque bronElectrical wind heating
Even going to electric first has advantages, as you don't need the inverter because you don't care about the quality of the voltage. But even if you do and you make a multi purpose system, it can be profitable!Taos wind
Wind Turbine Heat Pump
Using mechanical power to drive a heat pump is one way to heat using wind, and it can multiply the efficiency of the turbine by a factor four or so.Blog site
Friction Heating
A generalization of the wind heating concept is friction heating. It is the conversion of torque into heat. This can be done using any souce of work, be it water pressure, wind or other.Asian hydro to heat project
R&D
We are now developing knowledge on wind to heat conversion. To achieve that we are looking to develop a torque to heat converter, first to demonstrate the principle and draw more interest Then when a porper wind to torque conveter (turbine) is identified that can be manufactured cheaply the two can be combine to specifications.Lab test with vacuum insulated heat container and stirring device.
The above setup has a motor running at 8,43 volt, without water the current is 130 mA, with water it is 250 mA, so this makes the power absorbed by the water about 1,011 Watt.
In order to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius one needs 4.2 Joules, so 4.2/1.011 seconds of stirring.
The container has about 675 ml = 675 gramms of water, which means that to heat it 1 degree would take 675 * 4,2 = 2835 Joule which takes about 47 minutes.
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