The idea was immediately a hit because the process of making it would span across many disciplines of science and engineering. The blades and vane are made from carefully shaped insulation foam wrapped in a layer of unidirectional carbon fiber. The base and generator housing are mainly steel pipe and angle iron which has to be cut and welded together. The drive-train and adapters are made of aluminum stock machined to fit everything together.
We showed our wind turbine in the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival April 21st-22nd, visit http://sbearthday.org/ for more information.
Participating Members:
Andrew Bache
Bryan Ennis
Chris Harrell
Chris Morales
Colin Mortorana
Erik Sheldon
John Husbands
Karla Penney
Kevin Baragona
Kyle Lane-Wollert
Melika Rahimi
Michael Tishchenko
Payton Gordon
Sam Haycox
Spencer Wass
Tyler Anderson
Special Thanks To Jeff Elings for allowing us the use of his machine shop.
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