--- title: Wind turbine design targets onsite renewable energy market description: "Renewable Energy World: A company aims to enter the onsite renewable energy market with a wind energy technology that it claims can generate up to 50% more energy but at the same cost as rooftop solar PV." image: https://news.aerominetechnologies.com/hubfs/Aeromine_Wind_Harvesting_Unit.webp --- [![aeromine logo](https://news.aerominetechnologies.com/hubfs/Aeromine%20Website/logos/aeromine-logo.svg) ](https://aerominetechnologies.com/) - [ About us ](https://aerominetechnologies.com/about) - [ Press Kit ](https://aerominetechnologies.com/press-kit) - [ News ](https://news.aerominetechnologies.com/) - [ Product & Technology ](https://aerominetechnologies.com/product) - [ Industries & Buildings ](https://aerominetechnologies.com/industry) [ Contact us ](https://aerominetechnologies.com/contact-us) [** ](https://news.aerominetechnologies.com) 10 / 24 / 2022 # Wind turbine design targets onsite renewable energy market ***Renewable Energy World:*** A company aims to enter the onsite renewable energy market with a wind energy technology that it claims can generate up to 50% more energy but at the same cost as rooftop solar PV. [Aeromine in the Media](https://news.aerominetechnologies.com/tag/aeromine-in-the-media) A company aims to enter the onsite renewable energy market with a wind energy technology that it claims can generate up to 50% more energy but at the same cost as rooftop solar PV. Aeromine Technologies said its [bladeless wind energy product](https://www.aerominetechnologies.com/) is being tested by BASF Corp. at a Michigan manufacturing plant.  The technology taps into aerodynamics similar to airfoils on a race car to capture and amplify each building’s airflow. The product uses around one-tenth of the roof space needed by solar panels. An installed system consists of 20-40 units installed on the edge of a building facing the predominant wind direction.  AeroMINE (Aero Motionless, INtegrated Extraction) distributed wind power generators have no external moving parts. In operation, incident wind creates low-pressure regions between the mirrored airfoil-pairs. This suction pulls air from orifices (air-jets) in the skins of the foils, from the hollow airfoil interiors, supplied by a manifold which incorporates a turbine-generator. The turbine-generator is located inside the building, away from weather. In 2019, researchers from Texas Tech, Sandia National Laboratories and Westergaard Solutions [tested the design](https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1640929#:~:text=AeroMINE%20(Motionless%2C%20INtegrated%20Extraction),conjunction%20with%20rooftop%20solar%20photovoltaics.) using a wind tunnel. They used a variety of geometric configurations (involving foil spacing, angle-of-attack and air-jet configuration) to achieve a mechanical efficiency of around 1/3 of the Betz limit, roughly 18%. They said that intermittent operation at higher efficiency (around 27%) was demonstrated for higher angles-of-attack, but that steady operation was impeded by an aerodynamic instability. That instability trimmed power production and reduced overall efficiency to around 10%. The Betz limit is a wind turbine’s theoretical maximum efficiency. A German scientist working more than a century ago calculated the value at 59.3%. That means that, at most, 59.3% of the wind’s kinetic energy can be used to spin a turbine and generate electricity. The company’s founders include climate investment fund partner David Asarnow, inventor Carsten Westergaard, and AXON Networks CEO Martin Manniche. 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