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Amplified Wind Power – Driven By Basic Physics

Wind Power Equation.  The amount of electrical energy you get out of most any type of wind turbine is, in part, a cubic function of the velocity of the wind.  (This is where the “V3” in V3 Technologies comes from.)  This means that if you can double the ambient speed of the wind, the same turbine will produce 8X more power. 

New Wind Amplification Tower Design.  Starting in the mid-1970s, the U.S. Department of Energy and other researchers developed a variety of funneling devices to squeeze ambient wind streams to increase velocity using the basic law of physics known as the Bernoulli Principle.  The concept is simple, proven, and leads to a cubic increase in the of power per turbine as predicted – but the designs were not economically viable until recently.  V3’s design passively increases ambient wind speed by ~ 2.2X before the wind hits a series of uniquely designed turbines and vanes – in a Vertically Stacked, Modular Toroidal Wind Tower configuration.  

Key Attributes. 

  • Shape – Each toroidal module looks like a wide diameter hourglass, generally circular from the top and bottom but concave from every direction laterally
  • Height – Same as a 90-meter conventional wind turbine
  • Outside Diameter – Only ~30 meters
  • Base Case Design – 4 turbines per level, i.e., module (set within the concave shape of each module), 11 vertical levels = 44 turbines per tower
  • Adjusted Capacity – 3.5 – 4.4 MW per tower (for 11 levels)
  • Independent operation – Each set of turbines at each level rotates independently and passively
  • “Partial Operations” – An important feature that helps increase production, reliability, resiliancy, operating and maintenance costs, and safety
  • Passive amplification – The shape of the module passively collects and squeezes the wind around the tower using basic laws of physics to increase the speed of the wind

Wind equation: 2X amplification of ambient wind speed = ~8 times increase power generation per turbine

Amplification also greatly improves the power curve of each turbine, leading the V3 tower to be particularly effective in lower wind speed environments

Tower itself is fixed, but there’s a sliding hangar-style door on each level to allow the turbines to be moved inside for repair or safety

Internal Power Collection System – A collection system that generates electricity at the bottom of each turbine and is transported through a contact point into the tower

Please contact V3 for illustrations of the modular tower

Five Main Problems with Large-Scale Traditional Wind Power

  1.  Poor Energy Density at the Wind Farm Level
  2.  Negative Impact of Production Intermittency / Volatility on the Grid
  3.  Negative Impacts on the Environment (Noise, Bird Kill)
  4.  Very Difficult Delivery of Large Rotors and Tower Construction
  5.  Cost

V3’s radical new approach to large-scale wind power essentially solves all five of these major problems.


Traditional wind turbine manufacturers are simply asking the wrong questions and going in the wrong direction.

The industry-level problem being addressed by V3 is that renewable energy is not likely to become the predominant source of power for modern civilizations unless it, a) is clearly economically competitive or superior to any other form of power generation – without any form of subsidization, b) can be located in most types of geographies and climates, and c) can operate without causing significant disruption to the transmission and distribution systems.

V3 believes the current path of development of traditional wind technologies will not likely achieve these criteria, even with the emergence of new power storage technologies, for the foreseeable future primarily because of two main limitations:

1) M
anufacturers of traditional turbines are asking the wrong question (how to make the best [most efficient] rotor), and

2) They are being driven by the wrong paradigm (that making the best rotor will result in the best wind farms).

Wind power design should be driven by the quest to convert the greatest amount of windflow energy into electrons at the lowest delivered price for a given tower and piece of real estate in a reliable and safe way.