Wind Walkers

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Mar 202011
 

Wind-powered PVC walking machines. Just a bit unsettling to watch.

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  8 Responses to “Wind Walkers”

  1. Bruce says:
    March 21, 2011 at 5:47 am

    interesting concept.

  2. R2K says:
    March 21, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    These are great, hard to see how the can extract enough energy from the wind to walk into the wind.

  3. Pat Flannery says:
    March 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    I ran into those a few years back; they sure do look strange in operation, and you really have to applaud his engineering abilities and imagination in making them work.

  4. Jp says:
    March 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    THAT is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, true genious

  5. Nick P. says:
    March 22, 2011 at 3:05 am

    See, now I want to make myself a PVC wind powered walking throne to ride around on.

  6. Robin says:
    March 22, 2011 at 11:05 am

    How windy is it on Mars?…………

  7. R2K says:
    March 22, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    “How windy is it on Mars?…………”

    Not very. Remember that the ground level pressure is comparable to 100,000 feet on Earth. Even a “high speed wind storm” on Mars is going to push very little on a surface. On the plus side, gravity is much lower.

  8. Jeff Wright says:
    March 25, 2011 at 3:29 pm

    I wonder if someone could combine this and the old hoberman sphere. Instant tumbleweed. Useful on the sea floor perhaps?

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