More WECS’s

Definition of a WECS per the Culver Zoning Ordinance – 2010-007:

Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) – Equipment that converts and then stores or transfers energy from the wind into usable forms of energy and includes any base, blade, foundation, generator, nacelle, rotor, wind tower, transformer, turbine, vane, wind farm collection system, wire, or other component used in the system.

Below are some WECS’s that are not traditional wind farm turbines that could fall under a WECS ban.

The little guy sawing logs below falls under the definition of transferring energy without creating electricity.  Ditto if you have an old style farm system that pumps water directly.  WECS’s are proposed to be banned throughout the L-1 (lake) district.  Better sell your sailboat.  It converts wind energy to move the boat forward.

And a ban stifles innovation such as the E-turbines below which are designed to go along roads to collect energy from passing cars.  The wind turbine street lights come in a wide variety of configurations which save money and resources by eliminating the need for wires.

Anemometer Image borrowed from Wikipedia

Sailboat Diagram borrowed from Wikipedia

Iceboat image borrowed from wikipedia

Vertical Axis WECS image borrowed from Wikipedia

Woodsman weather vane Image borrowed from thechronicleherald.ca

E-Turbine image borrowed from alternativeenergyecogreen.blogspot.com

Traditional farm wind turbine Image borrowed from www.stockmypond.com

Vertical shaft WECS image borrowed from sfcitizen.com

 

Vertical access wind turbine image borrowed from rnrenergy.com

Cowled wind turbine image borrowed from www.greenme.it

Traditional farm water pumping windmill image borrowed from www.prevailingwindpower.com

Vertical axis windmill image borrowed from mesa.sdsu.edu

Wind Turbine Street Lights (Pretty cool!) image borrowed from webecoist.com

Wind Turbine on a boat image borrowed from traderonline.com

More power from the highway suggested in an Arizona State University blog here: http://archinect.com/blog/article/21451130/here-goes-please-comment 

http://archinect.com/blog/article/21451130/here-goes-please-comment