Tuesday Two: SolidWorks World edition
October 27th, 2009
There’s been many inventions and innovations that have been profiled at the various SolidWorks World conferences. This week’s Tuesday Two covers two wind power winners that are getting noticed.
Tuesday Two
Magenn has an innovative balloon wind power generator which goes by the name Mageen Air Rotor System (MARS). It floats far above the ground to take advantage of wind that is more reliable than ground based turbines. Here’s an ancillary article in Design World on material used to make MARS.
Jeff Ray gives us an update on MicroWind Technologies which makes relatively small rooftop wind turbines called MicroWind Residential Turbine which will be able to produce 3 kW. They also have the MicroWind 300W which can be lamp post mounted.
Epoch-Fail
The Smart car that just isn’t all that smart. It is not much bigger than a go cart, while only netting 41 MPG highway (which is worse than many real cars already on the market). Too much is sacrificed in both functionality and safety for no real gain; and don’t get me started about the price for the “well equipped” version! For that, it recently ranked as the worse car of the 2000’s by Cars.com, not to mention it wins this week’s Epoch-Fail award!
Categories: SolidWorks World, Tuesday Two | Tags: balloon, green power, residential, turbine, wind power
Hehe. Smart Cars. A friend of mine coined them “Dumb Cars” because you have to be dumb to actually buy one. Just get a Kia/Hyundai! Less money, more space, just as good gas mileage (or for better mileage get a hybrid compact). Or, if you are a green fanatic, get a used Chevy Metro. 50 mpg, and only a few thousand bucks.
Yup…more reasons that the car sucks.
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