New bladeless wind turbine promises to disrupt industry

Posted on 20 May 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

A Spanish startup has debuted a new technology which it believes has the potential to disrupt the wind power industry.

Vortex Bladeless has developed a completely new kind of wind power turbine which unlike traditional designs, features no rotor blades. Instead, the bladeless wind turbines technology makes use of swirling wind currents known as vortices to create oscillation within the tower itself, in order to generate kinetic energy. This kinetic energy is then converted into electric…

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