In the article he has posted describing his new wind turbine concept, Senapathy Kulandaivelu talks about how wind turbines need periodical maintenance, but that it is really "a herculean task" to perform preventive and breakdown maintenance on conventional wind turbines, because their nacelles are positioned up in the sky. "Is it possible to make a windmill which is maintenance friendly?", asks Kulandaivelu. He believes so, if the turbine is at ground level. To this end, he has designed a new concept of wind turbine that directs wind to the turbine at floor level.
To read more about his concept, click here to access the Blog:
Blog article on ground-level wind turbines
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