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A project log for Project Hemisphere

A low profile wind turbine for the masses

andrewAndrew 05/29/2016 at 20:250 Comments

As I found out about Hackaday so late, these first few build logs will be summerizing the time I've spent on this project from the first idea to now.

I first thought of the idea for this project while sitting in my 9th grade Geography class around 3 years ago. We were talking about alternative energy that day which got me thinking: There must be a better way to make a wind turbine. so I doodled ideas all over my notes and by the end of class came up with a crude idea. A hemisphere shape with multiple fins and a cover. It was a very simple design that I knew could be quite easily built, but out of what? Over the few weeks after that, I ran multiple ideas through my head to figure out what might work best. Things like wood carving, aluminium casting, sheet metal, and many others popped into my head, but all of them were too dangerous or too hard for me to do at the time. So I sontinue to think. For quite a long time actually. Close to 2 years to be exact. The next build log will discuss those two years of thinking.

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