Philippe Starck’s Wind Turbine Design

by Mark R in Eco Gadgets, Miscellaneous Gadgets

14 Comments on “Philippe Starck’s Wind Turbine Design”

Richard Says:

July 4th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

$633 and you get 20-60% of power? I want to believe it but that just can’t be true

John Says:

July 4th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Guys–Starck is a character on a scifi channel show called “Eureka.” The ‘inventions’ on the scifi website are fictional.

Philippe Starck designs personal energy wind tunnel for households | CJCM2u.com Says:

July 4th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

[...] Source: DVICE via Coolest Gadget [...]

Richard Says:

July 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

so this isn’t real after all?

Ann Merritt Says:

July 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am

There may be a character named Starck on TV, but Phillippe Starck is a well know real life designer. Just google him and the invention- both are real.

Gadgets Says:

July 5th, 2008 at 9:15 am

A quick search online shows that this is not real or realistic. This is just another of those gadgets we wish existed but cannot exist in reality.

Donnnell Says:

July 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am

Philippe Starck is a real person and the invention is real. He felt he had to design this because he felt everything he had designed before was useless.

You can watch a video of Philippe speak at TED at

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_deep_on_design.html

Roy Forgy Says:

July 6th, 2008 at 6:55 am

Very cool, we need more of these.

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July 7th, 2008 at 4:33 am

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Ann Merritt Says:

July 7th, 2008 at 7:25 am

Gadgets- try that online search again. The device was introduced at the Milan Greenergy design show earlier this year and will be available in Sept. 2008.

brian Says:

September 20th, 2008 at 5:45 am

well, it is september and i still can’t find it for sale anywhere. has anyone else seen it?

Jacob Says:

December 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am

Hmm..its Dec yet I don’t find it for sale anywhere. Even its manufacturer, Pramac, doesn’t have the product listed on its website… this all sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Or just more BS from an industry that famous for it.

On a more serious note, why is this Mark R guy who wrote the article simply taking these claims at face value? This industry is full of BS. A study done by MIT showed that small wind turbines produce less than 30% of what the manufacturers claim, on average. Knowing quite a lot about this industry, I would peg the number for this turbine at even less than that. I can’t see the torque needed to start turning a generator. This is all pointless anyway, look up Newton and Betz. Energy extraction from wind is all based in physics. There are laws that govern what can be produced. At the rooftop level, the wind simply isn’t there. Its not the case that you get the same output form 3 mph winds for 2 hours as you would 6 mph winds for 1 hour. It isn’t a linear relationship. It would take almost 2 days of 3 mph winds to get the same output from a single hour of 10 mph winds. The relationship is that drastic. That’s why turbines are so high in the air, thats where the winds are.

I hope to be proved wrong though, coal fired utility plants have to go!

Joe Says:

April 30th, 2009 at 8:10 am

Excellent points Jacob. Any current news on this item?

Carlos Barrera Says:

August 28th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

Proposal Technology Submission:

http://gearturbine.260mb.com/

YouTuve Video: Gearturbine – Retrodynamic

“Gearturbine”-Dic, 1991 IMPI Patent Mexico #197187-Retrodynamic dextrogiro vs levogiro effect-Non parasitic losses engine system for cooling lubrication combustion-2 Very long distance cautive compression inflow propulsion conduits like a digestive system in perfect equilibrium well balanced star were end like a snake bite his own tale-4 Pairs of dynamic turbos-Direct planetary gear thrust like a YING YANG-2 Inflow propulsion opposite flames like 2 dragoons.

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