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http://www.magenn.com/technology.php


The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) is an innovative lighter-than-air tethered device that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, efficiently generating clean renewable electrical energy at a lower cost than all competing systems. This electrical energy is transferred down the tether to a transformer at a ground station and then transferred to the electricity power grid. Helium (an inert non-reactive lighter than air gas) sustains the Air Rotor which ascends to an altitude for best winds and its rotation also causes the Magnus effect. This provides additional lift, keeps the device stabilized, keeps it positioned within a very controlled and restricted location, and causes it to pull up overhead rather than drift downwind on its tether.

[some waygug-in]

Great idea. I just hope .........eeek! I just felt the ground a shaken!

anyone else feel that?

[AbbeFaria]

That's cool, I want one. 10 g's for a home model. I wonder how long it would take, on average, to pay for itself. They should have included that on their site somewhere.

-S-

[BigBlackEquus]

Nice, but unless I missed it, a very important point is absent from the article: how much power does it put out?

If it is just enough to power a computer or something like that, then it's barely worth it.

[AbbeFaria]