Wind power + Solar Power = More power for everyone!
Wind power + Solar Power = More power for everyone!
Q1: How do you hook up the solar panels to the battery? Can you have two different sources (i.e. wind and solar) going to the same battery or would that require two different batteries?
Idea Description
The idea is simply this, I have seen windmills out here in Northern CA and most of them do nothing when there is no wind. What if there was a way to generate power whether there was wind or not? The solution is to equip the massive props of the windmills with flexible solar panels. Also you could retrofit the bases of these generators with a swivel so if it is windy you could turn them into to the wind or the sun.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
To use the money to develop a prototype and pitch that prototype to the states that use windmills as a power source and also come out with a commercial version (on a smaller scale of course) for home and private use.
Vote for it now.
what if you install solar panels up and down the base of the windmill