Vortec
The development, promotion, and marketing of the Vortec 7 configuration has all the hallmarks of the hubris characteristic of Diffuser-Augmented Wind Turbine inventions. In short, the hype exceed the turbine’s performance and the company’s promotion exceeded its ability to deliver. Some of the country’s best engineers were swept up in the euphoria produced by one of New Zealand’s most charismatic promoters.
NZH: Vortec hits second wind with turbine energy technology
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Yoke Har Lee
Vortec Energy – after spending $5 million on what its chief describes as New Zealand’s most expensive “sculpture” – has emerged with new wind-harnessing technology and made its first licensing deal. . . Robin Johannink, Vortec’s managing director, is painfully frank about the first under-performing wind turbine-prototype. “The bottom line was, it didn’t do what it should have done.”
Status of Vortec 7 Project
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Thomas Ackermann
The New Zealand Wind Energy Association newsletter gives some information about the status of the Vortec 7 project, reports Thomas Ackermann. . .
Comments on the Vortec Diffuser Augmented Turbine
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Paul Gipe
I was critical of the development of this wind turbine for several reasons: excessive hype, questionable sales of stock, and the aggressive style of the company’s promoter.
New Zealand Sunday Star-Times: Storm over Wind Energy (Vortec 7 DAWT)
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Daniel Riordan
AS WIND turbine generator Vortec Energy gets ready for a 10-city roadshow: to promote its $10m public offering an overseas …
NZSM: Getting the Wind Up
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Despite the questions and scepticism, hopes for the new machine remain high, with Vortec predicting that the full-scale machines will produce electricity at about 4 cents/kWhr, or about half that of conventional windfarm technology.
Vortec home page in June, 1997. Copyright 1997 by Vortec Energy Limited.
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Attempt by Vortec to rebut their critics.
