%0 Report %1 FRAYNE2007 %A FRAYNE, Shawn %C LLC 4959-3 Maunalani Circle Honolulu, HI 96816 %D 2007 %K energy power third-world wind windbelt %T "Windbelt" Generator %U http://www.rexresearch.com/frayne/frayne.htm %X The Windbelt technology was originally conceived in 2004, during a trip to Petite Anse, Haiti. This fishing village near the coast was not connected to an electrical grid, and the only lighting available was diesel-powered or kerosene-based. Shawn Frayne, a member of a team from MIT and Petite Anse working in the area, recognized that instead of kerosene lamps, white LEDs powered by a very inexpensive wind generator might be able to better light homes and schools in the area. However, when Shawn tried to design this affordable, turbine-based wind generator, he hit a brick wall: turbine technology is too inefficient at these scales to be a viable option. However, these difficult constraints of cost and local manufacture led to a new invention, the world’s first turbine-less wind generator. The Windbelt generator fulfilled its original design criteria while demonstrating10x the efficiency of the state-of-the-art in micro-turbine technology on these scales. Now, Humdinger is poised to take this technology and apply it to a wide array of fields, from rural lighting to energy harvesting for wireless sensors in ‘smart buildings’...

@techreport{FRAYNE2007, abstract = {The Windbelt technology was originally conceived in 2004, during a trip to Petite Anse, Haiti. This fishing village near the coast was not connected to an electrical grid, and the only lighting available was diesel-powered or kerosene-based. Shawn Frayne, a member of a team from MIT and Petite Anse working in the area, recognized that instead of kerosene lamps, white LEDs powered by a very inexpensive wind generator might be able to better light homes and schools in the area. However, when Shawn tried to design this affordable, turbine-based wind generator, he hit a brick wall: turbine technology is too inefficient at these scales to be a viable option. However, these difficult constraints of cost and local manufacture led to a new invention, the world’s first turbine-less wind generator. The Windbelt generator fulfilled its original design criteria while demonstrating10x the efficiency of the state-of-the-art in micro-turbine technology on these scales. Now, Humdinger is poised to take this technology and apply it to a wide array of fields, from rural lighting to energy harvesting for wireless sensors in ‘smart buildings’... }, added-at = {2011-01-02T22:45:34.000+0100}, address = {LLC 4959-3 Maunalani Circle Honolulu, HI 96816}, author = {FRAYNE, Shawn}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23410574c3314023854650d96d8fe8f52/brightbyte}, institution = {Humdinger Wind Energy}, interhash = {ad8006b444b20e672de2893a6f4433b2}, intrahash = {3410574c3314023854650d96d8fe8f52}, keywords = {energy power third-world wind windbelt}, timestamp = {2011-01-02T22:45:34.000+0100}, title = {"Windbelt" Generator }, url = {http://www.rexresearch.com/frayne/frayne.htm}, year = 2007 }