WaterPod WindPod Turbine
Abstract
With the increase in today's population, the Waterpod set out to find an innovative way to "prepare, inform, and provide an alternative to current and future living spaces." The Waterpod Project. The Waterpod is a group of artist who plan to live on a barge with the hope of living completely self-sustained for 6 months. The barge is planning to depart on May 20th and will travel around the 5 burrows in New York teaching about alternative solutions to environmentally harmful lifestyles and about sustainability. Cal Poly Humboldt Engineering 215 Intro to Design class was contacted to design some of the structures for the artists that will live aboard the barge. Team MSB is a team made by the Intro to Design Class to create a wind turbine that would harness the renewable power of the wind and turn it into energy and help to contribute to the energy needs of the barge to power a projector along with other necessary electronics. The final design was the WindPod Turbine which is a vertical access wind turbine that uses the power of the wind coming from any direction to create energy.
Date
Spring 2009
Department
School of Engineering
Concentration/Emphasis
ENGR 215 — Introduction to Design
Advisor/Professor
Lonny Grafman
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