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govertical
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Posted: 12:57am 07 Aug 2016

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https://youtu.be/OiRhX6FDCVw

Hi, interesting results, looks easy to fabricate. Sadly I live in a low to no wind area so it will help me. Posting just for info.

just because your a GURU or forum administer does not mean your always correct :)

govertical
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Posted: 01:01am 07 Aug 2016

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Correction, it won't help me.

just because your a GURU or forum administer does not mean your always correct :)

MacGyver

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Posted: 02:28pm 22 Sep 2016

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Hey, I tried to message you, but either there's something wrong with the system or something wrong with me or both. Message me, please, as I am interested in whatever a "wind multiplier" is and I couldn't find it using your link. Thanks.

. . . . . Mac

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Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
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electrondady1
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Joined: 12/02/2009
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Posted: 02:39am 23 Sep 2016

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it's the term used to describe stationary "fins" that surround a vertical axis machine. the idea being they catch and redirect moving air into a a smaller set of fins that rotate.
i could never see the point because there is usually as much , if not more material in the "wind multiplier" as there is in the actual wind mill.
for me it's easier to just build another wind mill and combine the outputs.

one aspect of these booster fins surrounding the actual windmill, they hide the movement of the wind mill.
thinking along the lines of acceptance in urban settings, if the neighbors can't see anything spinning they have less cause t be alarmed.

Edited by electrondady1 2016-09-24

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