New wind turbine design goes vertical (Denver)
Andrew Thacker has worked for companies that built the B-2 Stealth Bomber and the Tomahawk cruise missile.
But now, he wants to use his engineering background to work on something different: a renewable-energy wind turbine, dubbed the “TurbiNator,” that has its own unique shape.
“I’ve built bombs and bullets for 35 years of my career,” Thacker said. “It’s high time that I put value back into this planet.”
The TurbiNator is intended to perch on the roofs of hospitals, commercial office buildings and warehouses, and big-box retail stores. It would generate electricity from the wind and feed it directly to the business, with extra power available to the larger power grid, Thacker said.
The TurbiNator is the idea of New Millennium Wind Energy LLC, which he founded in Avon in 2008. The firm has 12 employees.
The TurbiNator’s blades spin around a vertical axis — unlike the big, windmill-like turbines that dot Colorado’s plains and spin around a horizontal shaft.
Read the full story in the Denver Business Journal.
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