2320 The Wind Tube

[@woodworks2123]

I'm back after a few months away without internet access. I have a lot of tnt videos to catch up on. I'm glad you've returned to the wind wall idea. It's got great potential. Your cad skills have increased robert. very impressive.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

welcome back and cheers mate

[@angelusmendez5084]

Awesome! 🎉

[@orpheuscreativeco9236]

That's fantastic -- genius in it's simplicity. Thanks Rob! ✌️

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@johnwynne-qx6br]

You have certainly got that computer program working for you and your idea's. Great to see you press a couple of buttons and hey presto a working prototype. Great video as usual 👍

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - cheers mate

[@billschwandt1]

This is a beautiful design. I absolutely love it!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome - cheers mate

[@JosamaBinBiden]

but what does it do

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Thank you Robert!! ~ This is going to be my 1st project!! (After Christmas!! Or during,Lol!!)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome - not long to go now lol

[@kittysingle]

Great tutorial. I'm struggling with the alignment tool and the cookie cutter method, so this is exactly what I needed. My question about this turbine is does it work in the vertical position? This one looks like a good starting project for me given its adaptability, if I can stick a Darwin wind catcher on the top of it. Thanks as always.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I am glad it was helpful and yes it will

[@kittysingle]

@@ThinkingandTinkering I have .2 mm copper wire, if I do the 1000 wrap, I should get similar results because the length is the same, assuming I get the right capacitor. I actually meant to say, 1200 turns, to compare against a three phase at some future build. Staring at you coil wrapper base, even as I type.

[@allanfahrenhorst-jones6118]

Excellent work.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@nakefatty9167]

These could be built into walls as vents or capped off chimney. All insulated 'cold roofs'a require ventilation too. Tile vents, eaves vents or sofit vents could be fitted with these compact turbines

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

like it mate!

[@andrewalexander4024]

Great hints n tips robert as always stimulating the mind

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@12thsonofisrael]

❤ Good Job Sir Robert 👏 👍

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@coconutterrence8549]

keep up the good work ,and cheers to you .terry

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

all the best to you too mate

[@pettere8429]

This design looks wildly material intensive for the area of wind it will interact with. Also, since it is so solid most of the wind will just flow around it instead of through the hole. It might be useful if you need a small amount of power in very harsh conditions but otherwise I see little use of the design. There is a reason big wind power turbines are as slender as they are.

[@gingerdude94]

Very good demonstration

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@atrumluminarium]

The hexagonal one was a cool idea from the comments. For a windwall application, a hexagon allows you to have less "extra space" around the turbine and would let you pack more turbines in a given area... Assuming the wall is large enough or the turbines small enough for the 5% more turbines to actually be consistent.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

i thought it was a cool suggestion too

[@jounik]

As presented, the hexagonal layout would indeed be a net win. However, keeping the orthogrid layout would allow for alternating left- and right-handed cubes so that neighboring units have their magnetic fields moving the same way where there's overlap instead of fighting each other. Although, now that I think of it, while those opposing magnetic fields do hinder the rotation itself, they might actually serve to improve on the field density passing the coils. My intuition fails me here.

[@shotybumbati]

love to see tinkerCAD used for such a great print. By far my go-to CAD for quick work

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Same here!

[@jamesdaca1293]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I have a remix to post if and when I figure THAT out ‼️🤣 You, my muse are loved. I turned the screw into an impeller to mount on an outboard motor bottom unit. I have a low head high flow river I’m dreaming of….❤ Such gratitude for the inspiration. Who da thunk- CAD AND 3D @62yo😂

[@gearsandtears7643]

I love the concept

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@manminusblood]

Perhaps you could add the led light capture panel to this case and get even more power from it?

[@patricklyons7683]

You could add a traffic cone to bring larger volume of wind into mechanism.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

you could indeed

[@sethblack5309]

I had the same thought.

[@atrumluminarium]

in theory you'd get a similar venturi effect by the extra space of the block around the rotor (although with slightly less efficiency due to turbulence but you save up on space in exchange). Look up "orifice plate" to read more about it.

[@jkirby0710]

What about adding the Darwin style Wind collectors to something like this? That would be interesting to see if there is a difference.

[@dSquared0162]

That should get the hive making honey! 👍

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@Fr333man]

It’s a Dyson fan 👍👍💪

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@davidgutting4317]

Now you need to put it at the end of a wind sock (airfield). Or one better, make a fabric wind funnel with a hula hoop.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

or you can!

[@davidgutting4317]

@ I would if my printer wasn’t broken. Have to settle living vicariously through you.

[@justtinkering6713]

Now all you need is an Air traffic controller to direct the wind into it.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

go for it

[@kilokilos]

Good to see you back. In my humble opinion, wind turbines is not the way to go if there is no wind, excluding all of Africa save the coast.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

it always depends where you are mate - no point in solar cells if there isn't much sun

[@kilokilos]

@@ThinkingandTinkering now sun we have, maybe compressed air and a Tesla turbine?

[@MerwinARTist]

As a former bee keeper of 100 colonies .. I love the hexagonal design! I can see that it would add strength and be more space efficient. A wall of them .. "Bee Hive Gen" .. already hear the buzz in my head! lol 😀

[@voodoobign8]

@MerwinARTist As the son of a beekeeper and an amateur tinkerer, my head is buzzing right with you. Love the idea!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - awesome mate

[@MerwinARTist]

@@voodoobign8 .. lol .. thanks for commenting!!

[@elalcalde3362]

I wonder if the hexagon could be paired with a few pentagons to make a bucky ball wind generator structure. It could look like a giant mushroom.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I am sure it could

[@ARMANDOFUENTES-x2l]

Could you test the cube vs the honeycomb? I want to see how they stack up.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

you could do that as well as me

[@ARMANDOFUENTES-x2l]

@ThinkingandTinkering not everyone has access to a 3d printer. Or most of the materials needed for a generator.

[@jkirby0710]

What about adding the Darwin style Wind collectors to something like this? That would be interesting to see if there is a difference.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

go for it

[@jkirby0710]

@ thank you for all your enthusiasm and positivity. It’s infectious and I wish more people were like you!

[@pixelrancher]

Waterproof? Could it be adapted to be a water turbine?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

for sure

[@mikaelfransson3658]

YES! BUT VORTEX? Is a real good idea a VAWT-WALL! BUT is it Goodenoght? And if you have reach gold-mine in film 2049? Why not try to level up in that innovation!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ /Mikael

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I dunno - it's a good title and someone suggested it might be in the comments lol

[@elvistesla3179]

What I was thinking per my comments a couple years back on this (you are getting closer to it) was the same type blade to promote vortex optimal flow through. Then build an array. With a wall of blocks you could do that. However.......what happens in strong wind? The wall has to be strong.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

most walls are

[@elvistesla3179]

@@ThinkingandTinkering What about plastic 3D printed walls? Just saying that structural focus might be required considering the material and madularity. I like that its cheap and plastic and easily replacable and you can make it yourself. Just needs that extra enginering focus consideration in production is all I was pointing out.

[@sethblack5309]

I was thinking the toroidal blades would be more efficeint and powerful, and use a cone to catch the wind. Mount it on a spinning barren. The housing could have magnets & the blade could be made from copper which would create contactless electricity.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

give it a go and test it

[@sethblack5309]

@@ThinkingandTinkering I'm not smart enough to make it, and no means to do it, but I can imagine it. 🙂

[@gerryplayz4532]

😎👍

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@johnnorth9355]

Just a thought. Wind is very unreliable as a power source but I wonder if this could also be modified to work with water - either tidal or river both of which are very predictable and reliable ? Just a thought as I said and I am sure people with more engineering knowledge will put me right.

[@VeniceInventors]

As your printed parts keep getting bigger and bigger, my printer keeps looking smaller and smaller 😛

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

this was printed on a Flashforge Adventurer 5M Pro which has a bed size of 220 by 220 by 220 -that#s quite a small bed - i just use all of the bed

[@VeniceInventors]

​@@ThinkingandTinkering That's a nice printer! Mine is a humble Winbo Super Helper SH155L with a 105×105 bed, so 1/4th the bed area of the Flashforge and 1/6th its volume, but I'm quite fond of it because it's my first and only 3D printer, it never failed me, no clogging, no mechanical issue whatsoever, even though I moved it a lot between labs and trade shows.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

@@VeniceInventors ah - that is a small bed mate - still - I can understand the attachment lol

[@draagh]

Could You please make a video on, how You designed the archimedes turbine itself, please? That would be awesome. I mean, ppersonally, i would be happy!!! 😊 __/\__

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

will do mate

[@Mark_Linford]

😁

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@RobertHammock]

💧. . .

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@ToddHoldaway]

Too phone dumb for photo

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

i am sorry mate - i don't understand

[@ToddHoldaway]

@@ThinkingandTinkering wet dry vacs are reversible- they have the propensity to create vortex as well as hold some vacuum energy- few if any utilizes a capacitor or flywheel set up

[@ToddHoldaway]

Thinking mechanical toriodal cantremembertheword

[@ToddHoldaway]

Turbo the input & outputs of a vacuum together with flywheel upramp clutch & resistance control

[@demitaylor8873]

That's all fine and good BUT how about those of us who DON'T HAVE A fun little program to do the work.. Off griders DON'T HAVE ANY GADGETS.

[@online247365]

There are services available online that will 3D print stuff for you if you send them the files (emailed or uploaded to their site) and specify which material(s) you'd like for them to use.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

You can upgrade or, learn the program and use service providers or work out how to make it from tools you have yourself - those are pretty much your options - I can tell you one thing that doesn't do much good lol. Stop complaining mate and get up and learn a simple program that will take you all of an hour to get to grips with and is free!!! The only thing stopping you here is you

[@Michaelfatman-xo7gv]

You have all programs you need in your head. Ideas are being thrown out and from there, fake it, until you make it. Did the same from the pre 3D videos.

[@timmyssweet]

From my calculations, 3d printers are ideal for solar. They consumer about 100 watts continuous. You don't need much solar to run a 3d printer.

[@j.christie2594]

The price of, breaking free, your on your own.

[@timmyssweet]

I like the cube idea, but the circle idea is also great. You have given me a lot to think about. I am planning to build one. There is no time limit. I'm a slight perfectionist, but I am also mindful of clutter and cost. I wouldn't consider myself a hoarder, but it just accumulates. My alterations include, magnets inserted from the inside out. From my knowledge, magnetic field passes through plastic. This will reduce maintenance and reliance on super glue. The tolerances even be able to increase. Magnets may be able to be strengthened by stacking etc. I think the cylinder needs at weather shield for the inside components, so a simple collar on the end of the cylinder should spin any water off before entering the unit. Yes, the complexity increases, but 3d printers have no problem with repeatedly printing complex profiles. It's just more complex to design. Forget about injection mounding. Manufacturers are not interested in residential energy production due to regulation, government subsidies etc. Third, the bearings are noisy. The noise will multiply by the number of units. TPU can be printed with ASA, so the cylinder could include a layers of TPU where the bearings roll on the cycler wall, or some rubber, TPU, or latex glove material on to cover the bearings. Yes, more complexity, but not if competent, and not for printers ounce designed. Regarding the shape, I always thought increasing the pressure with a torus tear shape would be help. It turns out that bubble soccer balls could make this easy and cheap-ish, but the wing needs to be faced inside, if I'm correct. A cube makes everything modular, which I really like. Great work Robert for pioneer industry 5.0 in additive manufacturing. I've always questioned why we don't produce the power where it's consumed? Solar should be on homes rather than fields. To succeed, we need to do more with less, we need to repair what we have, we need reduce our reliance on other countries by making what we need. And, we need energy.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I like your ideas mate - all of them and agree with you - i am looking forward to seeing how you improve this basic design - it certainly looks like you know what you are doing

[@ToddHoldaway]

Hot rod multiple inputs vacuum vs pressure vs valves

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

nope - that didn't help - can you try and be a bit clearer?

[@ToddHoldaway]

@@ThinkingandTinkering a car engine works with or without turbo or nitro- if both input & output can clutch for increased efficiency then imagine mechanical battery spilling into storage- when the on off switches then… if no sun then wind - if no wind then water or gravity- if not enough gravity then vacuum vs pressure etc