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Wind Harvest International
Wind Harvest International (WHI) has developed a straight-bladed,
vertical-axis wind turbine that offers the first cost-effective
solution to harvesting high energy, turbulent near-ground winds.  Using
a methodical approach that involved designing, building and verifying
11 different models, WHI created a rugged VAWT and discovered the
“coupled vortex effect”. Each feature represents a breakthrough in vertical axis technology. As a result, WHI’s Linear Array Vortex Turbine Systems (LAVTS) can achieve peak efficiencies near the theoretical limit for any type of wind turbine design and will be among the most cost effective of any turbine. The largest market for LAVTS is expected to be wind farms with good near ground wind resources in the “understory” beneath HAWTs. This includes most in California and an estimated 25% of others around the world. There are other large markets for WHI’s turbines One example is the UK’s Feed In Tariff market, which is limited to turbines with less than 100kW in capacity. WHI’s models 636 and 1500 meet these requirements and will be especially profitable in high wind sites. | Turbine Models |
