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scipio42 t1_it38h7j wrote

I have a rooftop patio, this would be very cool, but I'd love to have some validation that I'm not going to be cleaning up bird remains on the regular.

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ButterflyCatastrophe t1_it3hjqh wrote

Do you have to clean bird remains from your window sills on the regular? Flying into windows kills about 2500x more birds every year than windmills.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/

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123mop t1_it3mi1d wrote

Okay google, what's the proportion of windows to windmills?

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Anomaly-Friend t1_it3rh87 wrote

Not to mention it's a savonius rotor, not a wind turbine

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underthingy t1_it4nvxl wrote

"a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid."

So it's a rotor, powered by air, that's generating power? Pretty much the definition of wind turbine.

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Anomaly-Friend t1_it4q731 wrote

Y'all really got to argue about anything don't you. What I was getting at is this motor could chop up birds and the like versus the conventional wind turbine.

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underthingy t1_it4tng4 wrote

That wasnt an argument though. Language is important and you made the same claim (it's not a wind turbine) in multiple comments.

If no one corrects you, other people might believe you and start parroting it.

>versus the conventional wind turbine.

Had you used this phrasing or similar in your other comments we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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txhelgi t1_it53cta wrote

I’m thinking, a shit ton more but I’m no math whiz

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OneOverTwoEqualsZero t1_it3c2j6 wrote

They’re stationary, so it looks like they won’t thwack birds out of the air, but they create a negative pressure vacuum so hopefully they don’t suck the birds down and clog the internal machinery

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shotgun_ninja t1_it3h9fi wrote

It's just a turbine; you could encircle it in chicken wire and you'd be fine

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Gnarlodious t1_it3oo43 wrote

Worse than a turbine, a Savonious rotor.

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JBloodthorn t1_it4b7jj wrote

The blades at the top look like a standard Savonius Turbine, but they are stationary.

The actual turbine is below them, and rotates around the same axis that the air is moving.

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shotgun_ninja t1_it3ow02 wrote

Ah, my mistake. I still think chicken wire is a good solution, especially since you can't really see it from like 10ft away, and the openings are so wide it'd have a negligible impact on wind resistance and velocity.

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PaulbunyanIND t1_it3xp8l wrote

Do you have an intense childhood borne fear of cleaning bird carcasses?

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scipio42 t1_it3yru1 wrote

I did have several cats outdoor cats so cleaning up dead animals was a semi-regular occurrence. Wouldn't categorize it as a phobia though.

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crothwood t1_it4ahp4 wrote

The moving components are all inside the housing. No splatty birds.

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