Artificial trees to generate electricity NewWind Bashny.Net

French company NewWind has developed an artificial tree, leaves of which are small wind turbines designed in such a way that the "carousel on the bed, tree" can produce electricity even in very light winds. Artificial tree by NewWind is equipped with 54 "aerolite", each of which can produce up to 100 Watts of electricity. Thus, the maximum annual productivity of wood is about 5.4 MW. However, in comments to Business Insider, a company representative said that in fact, the tree generates much less — an average of 1,000 to 2,000 kilowatt-hours a year.





However, if we consider that in the USA the average level of electricity consumption per person amounted to in 2014 10 932 kilowatt-hour, then the installation of the tree in the yard may seem justified, because it will be able to generate about 18% of the total consumption in the home energy. In addition, the design of a tree looks quite attractive compared to conventional wind turbines.

NewWind has already set up some examples in Germany, Switzerland and France, and customers were either municipalities or commercial organization. For individual users by 2018, will also specially designed a scale model tree, however the price of such designs can be very high — the existing trees of large size are $55 350 each.

 


The use of wind energy is becoming one of the most popular ways of transition to vozobnovleniya energy around the world. According to experts, in the next ten years the development of wind power in Europe may increase to 140 GW, and in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of energy, the total potential of wind energy sources is not less than 2058 GW. published

Source: hightech.fm/2016/10/11/fake-trees