Uncovering The Genius of Fibonnaci Turbines

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Do you know of any other real places the Fibonacci sequence appears?

Why does the thumbnail say 145% efficiency? I hate when people lie in their advertising. Unlike and unsubscribed.

9:14 The green thing is NOT a savonius turbine. A savonius has to have a gap between the halves through which the wind can flow to the other half that runs towards the wind.

If the gap is missing it is a pure resistance runner like for example an anemometer.

To produce those spirals, a living thing's cells need to be able to produce a consistent angles of an irrational rotation. Phi happens to be a good ratio for producing dense packing on a growing surface area. Keep in mind, though, dense packing on a growing surface area ALMOST ALWAYS produces a spiral of some kind if it's not a flat surface.

The most important metric of a wind turbine is the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). This metric allows you to compare all forms of energy generation in terms of total energy return during the lifetime of operation per investment dollar spent.

As the entire surface of the front view of the spinning blades is solid material. Not transparent looking like the gaps between spinning straight blades. Birds might not try to fly through the "danger zone" as they will see the solid metal / plastic body of the turbine as they approach from the front or back. So perhaps fly around it. ☠

I finally understand the Fibonucci set, thankyou, great video.

I think the most important thing is Cost Per Watt, across all scales. So im wondering whats is the cost of manufacturing vs relative production improvement compared to traditional turbines. Beautiful video

9:09 you are welcome for that 1second of footage from my backyard.

Seems to me that the mountings they are using are sub-optimal, the wishbone bracket should be horizontal with a pair of rotors with opposite spin thus canceling the gyroscopic effect which would inhibit turning into the wind. This pair assembly then sits on a single pivot point where the two wishbones meet (like to back to back 'C' shapes) which is at the same height as the centerline of the spirals, which means far less torque force is needed to rotate it. This could even be expanded to a quad system all pivoting on one point. The reason you need to do this is that the main mast of a wind turbine is costly, so maximizing the amount of air captured by it is critical for cost effective deployments.

Interesting. In my opinion, you explain things in a clear and engaging manner.

I never understood the golden ratio until now. Thank you for explaining it so well!

As an Indian, I really appreciate your work and thanks for giving us credit. Many mathematical concepts are originated by Indians (Hindus, jains, etc.) but most westerners just avoid giving credits.

I am a Bharatiya, I am very thankful you mentioned where the fibinaci number actually came from, much appreciated

He wasn’t joking when it literally appears everywhere. Wonderful video ziroth

This was really one of the best researched and reported videos in a while.. long on info, short on channel begging. Well done

Another amazing video - love seeing engineering / nature crossovers 🌀

‘Crowd-resourcing sun-flowers’ - v. good!

Loving the history/mythology crossover/backstory. Another great video!

Thanks for taking the time to explain the many subject matters in this video.