Pringles wind turbine (Pleech) -and- turbine round up

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Mike writes -

The Pringles Wind Turbine (a.k.a. Power Leech or Pleech) is an attempt to turn simple items found at the hardware store and elsewhere into a working low-voltage power supply. The Pleech is design to take wind or other air currents (such as from A/C ducts, dryer vents, etc.) and convert that energy into electrical energy using magnets and copper coils.

instructables : Pringles Wind Turbine (Pleech) - Version One - Link.

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Posted by: samurai1200 on May 8, 2007 at 3:04 PM

I love turbines. We've been going over magnetic fields and inducted currents for about a month in my physics ii class... who ever thought i'd be interested throughout a lecture.


Posted by: o-tang on May 8, 2007 at 3:12 PM

Hmm, while browsing through some different wind turbine related sites i noticed this wind turbine + POV combination:
http://www.quietrevolution.co.uk/display_turbines.htm
Looks like a straightforward (re)make :)


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