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There are a number of types of wind turbines for power generation which can use wind from any direction.
Make a scaled down one, for use as a child's toy.
Like this?
http://web.archive....oy-bine_20Windmills
(Deleted idea.) [theleopard, May 27 2009]
Sainsburys: Vertical Axis Pinwheel
http://www.quietrev...n.co.uk/sainsburys/
If this is what you mean (turbines that rotate about an axis that lies on the vertical) then they have these at my local Sainsburys. [zen_tom, May 27 2009]
Vertical axis Pinwheels
http://www.kunstsch...12426/Windspiel.jpg
[loonquawl, Jun 02 2009]
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Could you link to what you are talking baout please? I googled but couldn't find anything. I put in your idea title and this idea was the first on the list. |
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... and this would be better than the gazillion vertical (and for that, any direction) axis wind kids' toys how? |
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I'm thinking that a toy-sized version of any type of windmill, including a cup anemometer, is fairly obvious. This is just a "make it smaller" suggestion. [ ] |
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[+] I like the idea, wouldn't have thought of it myself, and have never seen vertical turbines as a kids toy before. If I were a geek with kids, that's what I'd get them! |
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zeno, search for "vertical axis turbine" and you'll see the type of machine that I want to shrink down to the size of a kid's pinwheel. |
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loonquawl, regular kids' pinwheels are *all* horizontal axis turbines. They only spin if the wind is coming from in front or behind. If the wind is from the side, they don't spin. |
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baconbrain, I guess it is just a "make it smaller" idea... but there's there's nothing in the rules against it :) ... if it were obvious, someone would have invented it already :) |
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I thought those toys came in all different shapes and forms but you seem to have found a new one. |
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// regular kids' pinwheels are *all* horizontal axis turbines. // They are, if held horizontal. If held vertical, thanks to the cup-like aspect of the wings, they work too. |
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See [link] for professionalized version. |
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