Windbelt - Third World Power - Wind Generator - Video - Breakthrough Awards - Popular Mechanics
"Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind turbines don't scale down well—there's too much friction in the gearbox and other components. "With rotary power, there's nothing out there that generates under 50 watts," Frayne says. So he took a new tack, studying the way vibrations caused by the wind led to the collapse in 1940 of Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge (aka Galloping Gertie)."
The new alternative energy sources keep coming on line. Any of you from the Seattle Tacoma area will be very familiar with Gertie.
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