After some painstaking work, he was able to turn a ceiling fan into a wind turbine ... windings and adding permanent magnets around them, you can get around this downside of induction motors.

Researchers have documented that one of the key reasons the costs remain high is because wind turbines have shorter lifespans compared to other energy-producing technologies, which can be directly ...

Many of us will be used to old-style induction motors, in which two windings were fed out of phase via a large capacitor. This one doesn’t have a capacitor, instead it has a primary winding and ...