hehe, no it's not in engineering unsurprisingly. I'm an architect and urbanist looking at peak oil, so sadly my knowledge of air flow, torque and that are a little lacking but that's exactly why I'm asking so when someone asks me, "Does this fantastic concept actually work?" I can say... "No...
Firstly, I understand all of your points and totally agree with them. I am however, doing a project for masters and testing theoretical potentials of energy systems.
In this case I was studying how I might encompass a vertical axis turbine into a new urban form based around solely wind energy...
I thought, that if you increased the wind speed by funneling it then potentially the greater proportion of kinetic energy might i.e. since the air is now oving at 12m/s could turn my turbine more rapidly. Though I wasn't sure how the loss of potential energy would affect this. So, The increased...
Alright, Another question then. If I funnel air and increase its speed from 4.8m/s to 12m/s will it turn a wind turbine with increased force or will the resultant loss of pressure energy mean that the turbine will only turn as fast as if it were a 4.8m/s wind?
Hello!
I've attached an image below that shows a simple diagram of my question. I would like to know how to work out the area that I would need for a funnel to increase the air speed from 4.8m/s to 12m/s. The exit would measure 25 by 25, how big would the entrance need to be?
I've...