A Bladeless Wind Generator with Deployable Boom

Energy is the key factor for improving the quality of life and it serves as the backbone of various sectors including health, sanitation, education and many other sectors related to human development. As the demand for energy increases in the cities, there is still scarcity of energy specially in remote villages, refugee camps and other disaster-stricken regions. The biggest problem with current Conventional Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar is limitation in terms of portability and high susceptibility to weather conditions. To address these issues, in this paper we introduce a Deployable Bladeless Wind Power Generator (DBWPG), this is a compact size portable wind generator whose boom can be deployed to different heights and thus respond to the various weather conditions. We developed a device that uses the vibrations induced on its boom due to the vortex shedding causes by wind flow, to produce electricity. The device is easy to care and easy to deploy to different heights when needed. With this innovation we aim to introduce a low cost, low maintenance, environmentally clean and easy to operate wind power source that can be benefit residents of rural areas, NGOs and other relief organizations.