An American company, Altaeros Energies, recently launched a prototype helium-shelled wind turbine that can be used at high altitudes. While the test run took place at 350ft above ground, the ultimate goal is a height of 1,000ft. Tethers send the converted power back to the ground. Compared with...
Which blade design on a wind turbine would be most effective in spinning? And how many blades? Flat blades? Curved in towards the wind source? Or anything else? Please help, this is for a project im doing for fun, thus it is fairly small scale (the turbine diameter would be around a foot or so).
I have 430 total helicopter hours and 320 turbine (Bell 206), I need about 200 more turbine hours to get this job. What is the best way to go about this???