A few days ago Habré came the news, what Danish energy at 25% now it depends on wind turbines. clear, that wind generators are not a panacea, and these mechanisms have some disadvantages, including a large number of moving parts, blade wear, noise and stuff. Recently, the Dutch company Mecanoo introduced a pilot model of an electrostatic wind generator, which has no blades and moving parts at all.

In this device, water drops are used as a source and energy storage device, emerging from horizontally placed nozzles. Drops of water have a positive charge, and in the normal scenario, these drops are attracted to negatively charged electrodes / surfaces. But the system uses wind, which carries drops in the opposite direction, to positively charged electrodes. All this leads to an increase in the potential energy of a positively charged drop., and this energy is received, when a drop hits a positively charged electrode.

As can be seen in the photo, the generator consists of a metal frame, inside of which insulated tubes are placed in horizontal position. Each tube contains nozzles and several electrodes. On video, posted below, well shown how the system works. Unfortunately, the exact performance of such a "windmill" is not indicated, only said, that the amount of energy generated depends on the number of drops of water, from a charge of drops, from wind speed and electric field strength.

Generally, interesting idea, but before practical implementation, significant amount of energy, still far. Now a prototype system is located next to the University of Technology Delft.