¶ Wind Power Sequence (1)
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Wind Power Sequence:
"About wind power, I am glad we pioneered in such experiments on Little Spruce Head Island ‘early on.’ I have been pursuing the subject in varying degrees of intensity since 1927 when I included windmills, air compressors, liquid oxygen, liquefaction equipment, and air turbines in the design of the first Dymaxion house.
"At Little Spruce Head Island in Maine in the summer, and on a Wisconsin farm throughout the remainder of the year, our program is well under way to develop windmill-generated electricity to electrolytically convert pure Sun-stilled water into hydrogen and oxygen, thereafter to use the hydrogen directly for power purposes, or to reassociate the hydrogen and oxygen through the now well-developed and much reduced-in-cost fuel cell to produce electric current at an overall 85 percent efficiency…
“Concurrent with rural electrification a third of a century ago, I saw that windmills went out just as modern aerodynamic research began. In order to take advantage of this potential scientific harvest, four years ago, I took on Hans Meyer, a brilliant aerodynamics scientist. ‘We have had great success’”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May’73
