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.
Concentrating Windsystems – Sense or Nonsense?
By
Heiner Doerner
Since 1996 we have a “new” old, huge, new-fangled saurian, a device erected in New Zealand. . .