Power Collective Limited, a team born in England from the intuition of four managers and engineers with many years of experience in the field of eco-sustainable industrial research, has created RidgeBlade, a sort of mini-wind power plant, which could allow to meet the domestic energy needs electric.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himYou would like to be able to produce cheap wind power on the roof of your home? Power Collective Limited, a team born in England from the intuition of four managers and engineers with many years of experience in the field of eco-sustainable industrial research, has created RidgeBlade, a sort of mini-wind farm, which could allow everyone to meet their domestic electricity needs.
With this original project Power Collective won the Dutch Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2009, a competition launched to encourage entrepreneurs to go green in order to fight climate change and whose motto is “A brilliant idea can make a difference”. The prize, awarded in Amsterdam last September 25, consists of a check for 500 thousand euros, to facilitate the realization of the project and the marketing of the final product.
RidgeBlade is an innovative, sustainable and technologically advanced system for generate low cost wind power,
specially designed for be operational even in less than optimal wind conditions and for create minimal visual impact. In addition to being aesthetically rather discreet, the system is also very quiet: these characteristics mean that RidgeBlade it is particularly suitable for installation on private homes, rural buildings and on buildings located in “sensitive” areas from an environmental point of view.
The mini wind farm is equipped with turbines and is installed in the highest part of the roof, so as to be able to feed itself with all the air flows that run through its surface and to be able to generate electricity in very different wind conditions.
If commercialized, the project RidgeBalde could help reduce emissions and to bring down the costs of energy supply, joining environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and economic savings: that is to say, a winning formula. Thanks also to the 500 thousand euros of the prize offered by Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2009, Power Collective hopes to be able to make the first prototypes of RidgeBlade already in the first months of 2010, to test and refine its efficiency and to ensure the product all the necessary finishing touches before a real launch on the market. Which we hope will happen soon.
If you want to know more and stay updated on the developments of RidgeBlade, you can visit the Power Collective website.
Lisa Vagnozzi
