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The tower designed for the wind turbine is innovative and unique. It is particularly appropriate for the new turbine. The resilient, buckleable, plastic turbine is far more efficient than conventional aerogenerators. As such, it can produce more power than similarly sized conventional aerogenerators at much lower heights above ground level. Because of this it allows for novel, less expensive, less obtrusive, and less conspicuous towers making the entire installation less visually annoying and much easier to install and maintain.
The tower features a novel tripod base. Its simplest and most inexpensive manifestation consists of ordinary PVC pipe and fittings. The tower and turbine are held in place with simple, inexpensive, easy to install and easy to remove earth anchors. In this simple embodiment, the tower consists of a tripod base. The legs of the tripod base are all of different lengths . The three legs support a central column consists of staggered PVC wye fittings. Compared with a design having supporting legs of equal length, this produces a much stronger tower able to easily withstand the forces and moments which the turbine imparts to its supporting structure. Within the central column is the mast to which the generator and turbine are mounted.
The mast can be raised and lowered. For smaller turbine/generator assemblies, the entire turbine system can be assembled and installed with hand tools and a step ladder. Once the turbine/generator unit is mounted to the mast, it can be raised into position and locked into place by various means.
This design combined with the more efficient turbine rotor system produces a lighter, more efficient, stronger turbine system.
Conventional towers require either an extensive, large area system of earth anchor tethers or a very expensive tower with an expensive, below ground, cementitious foundation. Once positioned and constructed, moving a cementitious, in ground installation is not at all practical, whereas moving a turbine system as described here is quite easy.
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