It seems wrong video linked in forum *(EEVblog #1271)
How do you couple the solar power from the rotating blades? That needs lots of slip rings, one set for each blade and and another for the main hub. Oh, wait, it’s wireless. Duoh
How do you couple the solar power from the rotating blades? That needs lots of slip rings, one set for each blade and and another for the main hub. Oh, wait, it’s wireless. Duoh
Plus solar panels are DC, so those slip rings are going to have a reduced life due to breaking high current DC.
Also as pointed out in the youtube comments for #1321.
MPPT tracker vs SunPlower blanes
W = V * I and ...
... hmm higher than last time, lets try I = 5A and...
That's way out, how did that happen.
Stay still.
Voltage is all over the place.
Just a minute W = V *... ARRRGHH!
Grrr... why is nothing staying still.
Did some dork attach the solar array to a propeller or something!?!?!
*fatal error rebooting*
MPPT tracker V1.3
Checking system....
Fail
Error 17 FUBAR
*magic smoke escapes*
SunPlower is just taking the piss out of alternative renewable energy. If you look at the website it has virtually no detail and claims of being the solution to just about everything from submarine propulsion to flying cars. Why waste any time on it.
In a brief (very) online search I found this
https://www.facebook.com/siva.raghuram
https://www.sunplower.de/ Just look at the photo of the mobile phone tower. No sign of any street address for contact.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/business/693410-we-humans-are-on-the-wrong-path-for-energy-risking-existence-ceo-sunplower
Someone by that name and Texas Instruments do have some patents but none I could find (brief search of 5 minutes) for Sunplower.
https://patents.justia.com/patent/20140218018
It is basically trolling.
Wow what a disgraceful personal attack on a year old startup and its founder. When did we as a society become so cynical?
I understand doing a hit piece like this on a company that raised Billion dollars in funding and having no product to show for. But this a startup that is less than a year old with no external funding and showing regular work in progress on their youtube channel.
I am sure technology sounds impossible and may be it is. But isn't that startup's should be striving for?
Founder has at least 13 patents to his name and obviously not just some random guy like some comments here seem to suggest: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/siva-raghuram-prasad-chennupati
At least have you tried to reach out to founder and pose the same questions before doing a nasty hit piece? Or would actually following some journalistic standards and doing real work cut into your ad $$'s?
Wow what a disgraceful personal attack on a year old startup and its founder. When did we as a society become so cynical?
I understand doing a hit piece like this on a company that raised Billion dollars in funding and having no product to show for. But this a startup that is less than a year old with no external funding and showing regular work in progress on their youtube channel.
I am sure technology sounds impossible and may be it is. But isn't that startup's should be striving for?
Founder has at least 13 patents to his name and obviously not just some random guy like some comments here seem to suggest: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/siva-raghuram-prasad-chennupati
At least have you tried to reach out to founder and pose the same questions before doing a nasty hit piece? Or would actually following some journalistic standards and doing real work cut into your ad $$'s?
Did you register just to say this?
What does it matter if it's a year old startup, or where the money comes from? They've been at it for a year and still haven't figured out that it's a stupid idea.
Cynicism has nothing to do with this either. This is a criticism of a proposal.
Startups can strive for whatever they want. They don't get immunity from criticism.
Patents mean next to nothing. They certainly are not an indication of soundness of a proposal.
And yes 99.999% of them fail.
tl;dr
Fine, try the invention. If it doesn't work, don't tell people about it. Move on to the next thing. Because you may need to try 2, 10, 100 or even 2,000 things (such as lamp filaments, a long time ago), before you find something useful and sellable/marketable.
Obvious, there are multiple paths to final invention. Not everyone choses the same path and who are we to dictate the path to anyone?
My point is Author/Blogger/YouTuber was being too juvenile in personally attacking founder of an early stage startup.
hmm no impressum (name, address, VAT number, etc.) required by German law.
Wow what a disgraceful personal attack on a year old startup and its founder.
When did we as a society become so cynical? [...] I am sure technology sounds impossible and may be it is. But isn't that startup's should be striving for?
Wow what a disgraceful personal attack on a year old startup and its founder. When did we as a society become so cynical?
I understand doing a hit piece like this on a company that raised Billion dollars in funding and having no product to show for. But this a startup that is less than a year old with no external funding and showing regular work in progress on their youtube channel.
I am sure technology sounds impossible and may be it is. But isn't that startup's should be striving for?
Founder has at least 13 patents to his name and obviously not just some random guy like some comments here seem to suggest: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/siva-raghuram-prasad-chennupati
At least have you tried to reach out to founder and pose the same questions before doing a nasty hit piece? Or would actually following some journalistic standards and doing real work cut into your ad $$'s?
That doesn't mean we should be personally attacking the Founder.