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Interesting looking little wind turbines

http://gadgetdna.com/?p=818

Can't quite tell how they work, but the design is very curious.

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A hundred bucks ain't bad. I wonder how much it would cost if you produced it in bigger numbers, or if you got real lazy about the design.

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And another:

HumdingerWind.com
Humdinger’s core technology, the WindbeltTM generator, gets around these problems by putting aside rotation entirely. Instead, we have developed a method by which a taut, vibrating membrane, coupled with a no-contact, direct-drive electrical generator, can tap the energy of flowing air. The effect we capitalize on is known as aeroelastic flutter, most famously exhibited in the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse

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