Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old Californian, won the "Breakthrough Awards 2007," the magazine "Popular Mechanics" for his invention of the wind turbine more economical, compact and efficient than traditional turbines (with up to 30 times better). Shawn Frayne has been devoted to the study of this device to create a small "wind farm home" to the homes of the poor.
The idea came to him looking at the vibrations caused by strong winds in 1940 caused the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie), in Washington.
The device invented by Frayne called WindBelt and consists of a thin membrane with two magnets that oscillate, and thus vibrate between two coils of metal to the passage of a current of air produced by a simple fan.
The vibration generates 40 milliwatts with a wind of only 10-mph (miles per hour), making the prototype efficient for small applications such as LEDs, clocks, radios and small appliances to battery with the possibility, therefore, to replace obsolete and highly polluting generators such as kerosene, widely used in developing countries.
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