Largest Onshore Wind Challenge: Public Acceptance
Solution: The Corten Wind Turbine
The Corten Wind Turbine is a new design of a horizontal axis wind turbine with five of seven very slender blades and a truss structure in the rotor centre.
Compared to conventional wind turbines, the Corten Wind Turbine reduces the following nuisance factors significantly.
- Cast shadows
- Visual impact on the landscape
- Noise disturbance
- Bird fatalities
- Composite waste
Additionally, the Corten Wind Turbine is available in an offshore variant, which offers the following advantages
- Lower loads due to reduced solidity
- Half the amount of composite material
- Better scalability of the rotor
Detailed information is provided in the paper "The Corten Wind Turbine: Unexpected Advantages of Five of Seven Rotor Blades".
The videos underneath explain how the buisance factors are addressed.
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Introduction: The Corten Wind Turbine
The Corten Wind Turbine: Unexpected Advantage of 5–7 Blades
The Corten Wind Turbine builds on insights that increasing blade count from three to five or seven reduces environmental impacts and addresses a major barrier to onshore wind: public acceptance.
This patented concept could significantly improve wind deployment on land with major implications for the speed of the energy transition and the competitiveness of the European wind industry, provided they adopt the innovation quickly.
The Corten Wind Turbine addresses the following key wind energy challenges:
1. Shadow flicker
2. Visual impact on the landscape
3. Noise
4. Bird casualties
5. Composite blade waste
While increases overall wind farm ROI.
After inventing ‘Slender Blades [1]’, I have now developed the patented CORTEN WIND TURBINE, designed to reduce the impact of the above challenges by 50%.
The first manufacturer adopting the CORTEN WIND TURBINE can outperform competitors in cost, impact, and market leadership.
