The industry gold standard is the three-bladed, horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT), but one has to wonder why. As explained below, HAWTs come with many inherent problems. EverLiftWind Technologies have been investigating an alternative based on a fixed-wing type airfoil, and in this article Peter Keller describes the company’s new concept, the Looped Airfoil Wind Turbine or LAWT.

 

By Peter R. Keller, Vice President for Marketing & Co-founder, EverLiftWind Technologies, USA

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