SEOUL, South Korea,
Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Pinnacle Industries, a new innovative start-up in Seoul, South Korea, has designed, developed,
tested and now patented a smaller wind turbine known as T-VAWT. The
company has released a new video that shows how the turbine works
and its interesting characteristics and results.
The typical wind turbine is a tall ivory majestic tower
protruding up and out of fields across the great plains or lining
beach coasts. The T-VAWT, on the other hand, is a short pink and
black mass of seemingly angry rotational force that simply will not
stop moving even under the lightest of breezes. The design was
concepted by Jacob Rojas, CEO of
Pinnacle Industries.
When asked why he chose the design with an increased number of
moving parts that could ultimately lower reliability and increase
cost, Rojas responded, "It is an odd design, and there are
definitely too many moving parts, but that's how I intended it to
be. Making an electrical wind turbine that will break down,
requiring maintenance, is what I call 'responsible
engineering.'"
Rojas' company currently works on the engineering solutions side
of the industrial power industry. He said that in Texas he has already seen many people laid off
as wind power became more prominent, and shortly thereafter, power
plant boilers began to shut down. Rojas wanted to develop a design
to create sustainable jobs, not end
them. He states, "Normally creating costs for the consumer is bad,
which is also bad for businesses, but in this case, if profits can
be generated, where normally none exist for those consumers, then
no one cares."
According to an article on Sciencing.com, today's normal wind
turbines are not sustainable. A wind turbine that costs
$1.5 million dollars is rated for 20
years and generates (optimistically) around $7,000 a year. Even if somehow those wind
turbines did not need maintenance for that 20-year life span, it
would still only make $140,000 or
1.3 million dollars, coming short of
paying for itself. Real businesses want a shorter ROI, and unless
it can be accomplished, then it becomes necessary to rely on
government subsidies, which can all end with one election.
Rojas likens his design to that of a car with parts that are
made to break. Like a car, his design has two parts; the part that
will last 20 years and the other that needs to be replaced once a
year by a person employed to do that work. The design has four
blades that are lightweight and clip in and out in under five
minutes. Since the turbine is vertical, it also does not have to be
located 100 feet above the ground. The turbine will also rotate
with as little as 4 mph of wind due
to the magnets that are used in the design.
The four vertical blades transition from open to closed,
dependent on wind direction. On those four blades are horizontal
flaps that open during and because of rotation. During wind turbine
rotation, the vertical blades would normally be stuck in the open
position or basically slung away from the turbine center, but by
placing the magnets in the right position on the turbine body,
which face other opposing magnets on the blades, Rojas was able to
negate the rotational forces that would make the blades too heavy
for the wind to close.
In essence, magnets pushing against magnets makes the blades
lighter so the wind can open and close them easily, letting wind
pass through one side while the other side catches it. The
significance of this is that its only one side is really catching
the wind.
Rojas is currently working on gaining all the necessary
certifications and seeking a good likeminded venture capitalist to
partner with in efforts to speed up their international
certifications and marketing needs. They have already locked down
manufacturing partners in Korea and have all of the proper
patents/business paperwork filed and completed.
To learn more about the turbine, visit T-VWAT.com and the
company, visit Pinnacle-inds.com
About Pinnacle Industries
Pinnacle Industries has a network of top manufacturing
companies, government agencies for grants, certification firms. For
more information, visit, Pinnacle-inds.com.
Related Files
T-VAWT Specs Brochure.pdf
Related Images
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Related Links
Pinnacle Website
Product Website
Related Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqneEXqeyNc
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