An interesting post on Israel21c about a startup developing products for small urban wind farms.
The fluctuations of urban wind make capturing its energy more difficult
Variable Wind Solutions of Tel-Aviv is working on technology to improve the output and efficiency of the wind turbines – not on the turbines themselves.
It claims the fluctuating wind conditions of population centers make it difficult to effectively capture energy from the wind. This is a key reason why urban farms are been slow to take root.
CEO Ian Kaplan hopes a pilot project in California – and follow-on tests in England, Israel and Denmark – will show his technology can change this.
“Our technology can work with any kind of rotor design, so we can easily partner with any small wind turbine company and use their existing rotor setup,” Kaplan says. He predicts the three-year-old company will begin to sell its products commercially in as little as four months.
The company has raised $2.6 million in funding.
If he is right, the skyline of cities could change.
