Everything about Vaneless Ion Wind Generator totally explained
A
vaneless ion wind generator is a proposed device that produces
electrical energy directly by using the wind to pump an
electric charge from one
electrode to another. It is a type of
wind power, although wind energy is usually extracted to make
electricity by means of a
wind turbine.
Advantages of such a system over wind turbines include lack of bird deaths, vibrational noise, and moving shadows.
One design uses
water sprayed from a nozzle facing a toroidal charged electrode. This induces an opposite charge in the water and when the water flows out of the nozzle, each drop carries a small amount of charge. These water droplets are then blown by the wind, going through the center of the charged toroid without touching it. The droplets then hit a fine mesh, adding to its charge.
The other alternative is to use the
Earth as the second electrode. The main advantage of this system is that it has no moving parts except the water droplets. The disadvantages are that it needs a constant supply of water, its wind profile can't be reduced, it requires many small parts, and it has to be well-crafted to reduce
corona discharge losses. The device would produce
direct current, which would need to be
inverted to apply to a standard AC power grid.
Lord Kelvin created a similar device that used the energy of
falling water droplets to generate
high voltage, called "Kelvin's Thunderstorm".
Patents
- : Charged aerosol generator with uni-electrode source (Alvin Marks)
- : Charged aerosol wind/electric power generator with solar and/or gravitational regeneration (Alvin Marks)
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