How We Solved The Home Wind Turbine Problem

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Savonius turbines look cool. If your neighbors ask, just tell them it's a kinetic sculpture. You'll sound so sophisticated.

Yes, please, DO create more videos on residential wind power. There are so many wind power turbines you can find on Youtube, but getting reliable information on them is difficult. Some of the ones I am interested in are Liam F1 (Archimedes turbine), Solarwind Pro, Tulip wind turbine, and many others. It seems they keep popping up regularly. The Harmony turbine looks interesting for residential use. The Aeromine only seems practical for industrial or business applications. They don't seem practical for residential roofs. Please consider the noise level of the turbine. This will be an important factor in keeping the peace with your neighbors.

The big advantage of the Savonius turbine is obviously that it is independent of the direction of the wind opposed to the Aeromine system

I've been keeping my eye on Harmony's progress for years and am still waiting to see some real-world data on power output vs. swept area and wind speed. Granted it's clever and looks really cool, but viability is still a major question mark in my mind. You might say I'm a bigger "fan" of the Aeromine approach.

I’m so glad there are companies continuing to explore the needs of homeowners with “dirty” wind. We have no hope for solar and being in a steep narrow valley all we have is dirty wind.

I really like Harmony's approach to this and I hope Aeromine makes more headway too. We need more small scale wind production.

I've worked and talked with a few ranchers or well installers, and I've been told the cheapest most reliable way for pumping water for life stock was to use windpumps. So I'm surprised that there aren't more wind turbines for rural areas, especially when you consider how unreliable power could be in rural areas. When I worked on a ranch in South Texas, rain an hour away could disrupt power on the ranch.

Didn’t hear this mentioned in the video but one of the largest drawbacks to residential wind generation is the noise that most systems produce. Generally the higher the rpm the worse it is, especially if not maintained to laboratory standards.

There is a company in Europe (The Netherlands to be precise), called Ibis Power, that has a system similar to the Aeromine company you featured. The biggest difference is that they marry solar directly on top of their wind turbines. So when you buy there system you get both. They have been deploying them on tall buildings in Europe so far.

Would love to see more videos on niche wind power (roadsides, rooftops, urban canyons, etc.). These applications might never make sense in grid scale operations, but the long tail of wind could provide a significant amount of on-site generation for a distributed future.

So happy to see harmony getting more exposure. I really think they've got the answer to wind generation for homeowners.

Deep dive desired desperately

Love to see Harmony turbines getting more attention, I've been following them for a while already. I love the design and how it's potentially still useable well beyond when traditional wind turbines have had to cease function. I actually had just watched this after watching a different video on building integrated PV panels, which makes me think of what it could be like to essentially turn a skyscraper into a power production facility, covering the glass with solar panels, using any maintenance floors as potentially giant airfoil's for Aeromine's style turbines, and I'd love to see Harmony style turbines running up the entire corner(s) of the buildings, just constantly feeding off of whatever prevailing winds are there.

Fluid dynamics is a trip for sure. I like Zipline's drone delivery approach with their engineers which is an "assume you know nothing" approach. They came up with a wind prop/blade design that is way outside the box.

@ Matt...YES PLEASE could you please do a deeper dive into wind power in urban environments. I live in the city centre and due to our geography there is always wind blowing.

This is so cool. Where I live, solar is not an option (Quebec, you know, too far north). But the wind is blowing so strong, each day of the year... we have to really secure our winter car protections in order to prevent it to be blown away. 2 years ago, the wind was so strong that like 20% of all of them were blown or at least, partially detached. I'm even planning to plant a vegetal hay in order to limit wind damage to my fruit trees so they can grow more vertically instead of being pushed back. I don't know if they are looking for test beds, but this area is really well suited for it, especially because QC is not a traditionnal solar area.

Yes. Please do more on this field and on Harmony. And, thank you for helping to get the word out that the data on these designs is and has been wrong. This has been holding back progress for long enough, and I'm not convinced that it hasn't been on purpose.

Hi Matt. A friend of mine just imported one of those tulip style vertical turbines to test to determine with our Cape Town wind, whether it will produce the results in generating power. The wind blows a lot here in Cape Town during the summer so a turbine solution like this, if all testing goes well, will be a game changer.

Thanks for the video (update). There is no singular magic bullet for sustainable energy. Finding solutions that can be done in parallel covering multiple environments is awesome. The Harmony solution is very intriguing and I could see putting two them on our roof as soon as they are available. I hope they focus on simplicity to keep maintenance and manufacturing down. In aviation, we have leading edge slats on some airplanes that lower stall speed when deployed. The beauty is they automatically deploy at slow speed based on air pressure. No electronics, gears, motors, etc. Simple. Reliable. Effective .. and lighter and cheaper than an overly designed solution. Would love to see Harmony open and close using a similar approach.