Plug into the Jellyfish for Wind Energy

Plug into the Jellyfish

Want to convert to renewable energy for your home, but worried about the expense?  Its time to plug into the Jellyfish for wind energy.   For a mere $400 (rather than thousands), you can reduce your electricity bill significantly, simply by plugging in the renewable appliance.

Its that simple.  Instead of using power, it generates it!  No need for a converter, wiring or other accessories.  Taking the hassle out of renewable energy is perhaps the Jellyfish’s best attribute.

The small-scale wind turbine can be mounted on your roof, or in your backyard.  You may have heard about the recent fascination with small-scale wind turbines that you can either mount on your roof or in your yard. The Jellyfish Wind Appliance was nominated as a semi-finalist in Google’s Project 10 to the 100th contest.  Google will award $10 million for 5 ideas that will “seek to change the world.”

Its developer, Clarian Technologies, describes the Jellyfish as:

“The Jellyfish Wind Appliance is a small 36-inch tall vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) with a solid-state controller and a variable-speed induction generator that plugs directly into an existing wall socket and automatically generates power whenever the wind blows. The Jellyfish can be mounted on rooftops, wind towers or even existing street light poles – which are already pre-wired to the grid and have the tower already in place! And, it can generate up to 40 kWh per month in moderate winds enough to light an average home using energy efficient light bulbs. With a target price under $400 the Jellyfish would be an affordable option for many households and developing communities looking to harness wind power for the first time. Working in tandem with the existing power grid, the Jellyfish enables large-scale distributed-generation, delivering power exactly where its needed and reducing the demand for costly transmission infrastructure.”

The inventor, Chad Maglaque hopes to mass produce renewable energy.  The amount of energy that can be produced each month can be generated by the Jellyfish wind appliance to light up a home that uses high-efficiency light bulbs. Maglaque hopes the Jellyfish will do for the wind power industry what the personal computer did for the computer industry.

One vision is that the Jellyfish may help enable district wind energy co-ops. Neighbors may be able to join together to work  with the power utilities:

“Say you’ve got 10,000 units in one city. If you connect those units on a server, and generate power together — managing and regulating that power — you are in a position to work with power utilities,” Maglaque said. “This is good for customers because it provides a marginal return, and utilities like this as well because a: you have on demand power, and b: you free up funds to be allocated to the grid network that needs expansion and repair.”

If you agree with me that the Jellyfish looks like the next best thing for wind energy, then be sure to vote at Google’s contest here.