{"id":148464,"date":"2022-10-19T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/rooftop-wind-system-delivers-150-the-energy-of-solar-per-dollar"},"modified":"2022-10-19T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:40:26","slug":"rooftop-wind-system-delivers-150-the-energy-of-solar-per-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/rooftop-wind-system-delivers-150-the-energy-of-solar-per-dollar","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop wind system delivers 150% the energy of solar per dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoVIsGfTkS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aeromine says its unique \u201cmotionless\u201d rooftop wind generators deliver up to 50% more energy than a solar array of the same price, while taking up just 10% of the roof space and operating more or less silently. In independent tests, they seem legit.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed energy generation stands to play a growing part in the world\u2019s energy markets. Most of this currently comes in the form of rooftop solar, but in certain areas, wind could definitely play a bigger part. Not every spot is appropriate for a bladed wind turbine, though, and in this regard, University of Houston spinoff Aeromine Technologies has designed a very different, very tidy form of rooftop wind energy capture that looks like it could be a real game-changer.<\/p>\n<p>As with traditional wind turbines, size is key. So while Aeromine\u2019s wind energy boxes take up a relatively small footprint on your roof, they\u2019re still pretty bulky. The wings themselves are maybe 10 feet (3 m) high, at a rough guess, and looking at the latest imagery they\u2019re now sitting on top of boxes that might add another 6 ft (1.8 m) or more to their height \u2013 so they\u2019re no shrinking violets. On the other hand, they don\u2019t create the noise, or the constantly moving visual distraction of a regular, bladed turbine, so they may prove to be less unwelcome in populated areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aeromine says its unique \u201cmotionless\u201d rooftop wind generators deliver up to 50% more energy than a solar array of the same price, while taking up just 10% of the roof space and operating more or less silently. In independent tests, they seem legit. Distributed energy generation stands to play a growing part in the world\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}