Popular Science has named Doug Selsam’s Sky Serpent one of its top inventions of 2008. Selsam’s multi-rotor arrays come in all sizes and configurations, from small wind to giant building sized conceptual installations. The basic premise: more rotors equals more power.
The Superturbine Offshore concept, pictured above, would be created out of carbon fiber, angled to be less obtrusive, bend with the breeze and moored on the surface of the ocean, rotate directionally with the wind and be moveable, as well.
The Selsam Sanchez Tower, pictured above, is envisioned as “a city within a city,” rising 1/2 mile into the sky with desalination capability and net power exportation.
You can actually buy the dual rotor, Twin Super Turbine (pictured below) for $2,000. It’s rated for 2000 watts @ 30mph. Please do your own research.
Mr. Selsam’s website is a little, ’1-800-self proclaimed genius’, but interesting stuff nonetheless.
See more of his wild wind designs @ selsam.com or check out other Altcon posts on wind power
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Sounds like a good invention….on the retail side, it might be a good idea. Nonetheless, the strict civic codes in Suburbia might well prevent the common homeowner from installing one.
The restrictions in suburbia will be tough to sidestep. However the price is right, and with more and more people feeling the pinch, personal power production is more attractive to more and more homes.
We are shopping for a home, we are specifically looking to leave more restrictive suburbia for this reason!
wow. This seems really stupid. Birds! Ouch, so many crazy humans dependant on destructive innovations.
more birds die every year hitting car windows then the do hitting wind rotors. lets ban cars since they kill birds. I think this is a great idea, I can’t wait to see more of these in test
this may seem a little harsh but so birds die. You are the same people who complain about the environment and pollution. Make up your damn mind get it in your head the decision of which side your going to take. Either we use wind power and some birds take a suffering or we don’t use wind power and they die even faster due to rising pollution levels. It’s one or the other. With wind power, humans have free power at their own expense. As humans, we govern the Earth. Any religion states that humans are meant to be the overseer of the Earth.
Aside from that, I think it is a great idea but i have an upgrade I want to purpose which is equal to more power. I’m doing an environmental study in high school and I’m drawing a concept design for an upgrade on this topic. Mr. Selsam, I’m sure you’d like to see it when it’s done and give some feedback on it.