@ infringer
That is a novel idea that I hope comes to fruition for you, but that's not how I saw a "no moving parts" (which has been clarified to "no rotating parts") wind generator.
The first thing to pop into my head was electrostatic collection using Bernoulli's venturi effect as the motive force, with or without an electret attraction (like the heat/charge treated coaxial cable which as has long been theorized about).
It would have some significant challenges to overcome to be a generator that could furnish usable output (High V/ low A output, V/A conversion losses, switching polarities, humidity, etc.), but this "armchair dream" came to mind (since I really don't have a decent enough grasp of electronics to theorize competently).
What if you mounted a pipe vertically that was 20' (approx. 6+ M) long with both ends open to the atmosphere and used the wind speed differential within that 20' to draw the air though one end of the tube using the venturi effect?
It's omni-directional (NSEW) and doesn't have to move to face the wind. Air moves up/down through the pipe too depending on which end has the greater wind speed and lower pressure.
I suppose you could shield one end (the lower) from the wind to make the venturi effect unidirectional pulling air through from the earth side of the pipe.
The static electricity charge could then be collected by lining the inside of the pipe with a conductive screen as inductors/collectors to create/capture the ionic charges from the moving air.
How does it do that?
(Here's where the armchair really takes off.)
One theory would be that the inventor of this tech has conquered the electret issue and forms the pipe that way so the differential
ionic charges can be collected.
If that's the case, this guy has a "trade secret" in the formation of the electret and the collection method used, but.....
....what if you made it like a kelvin water drop generator using ionic charges of the particles in the air (so it still generates when there's high humidity or rain) instead of water?
Consider the linear kelvin water drop generator here:
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/emotor/ikelv.html ______
\ / Grounded
_____\ / Funnel
| || w/shower head
V ||
/\
__________
__ / \ / \ _________________o
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| Output leads
| __________o
| __________ |
| / \.. .. .. / \ ______|
| |___|____|___| |
| |
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| ______ |
| \ / Grounded |
| ___\ / Funnel | Connect the bundt pans
| | || | together using bare wires
| V || | and tape, or using alligator
| /\ | clipleads found at Radio
| | Shack stores
| __________ |
| / \ / \ ______|
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<ASCII art stolen from above site.>
Instead of using funnels and bundt cake pans, if you took wire screen and lined the inside of the pipe with pieces of it insulated from each other and corresponding with the electrical connections of the funnels/pans above that you could use the motive force of the wind instead of gravity causing water to fall to create this effect.
Like this?
WIND ------------------------>
AIRFLOW ----------->
^
____|____
|# | #|
screen lining(#) -----> |# ^ #| ---------------------
|# | #| |
insulator(<>)-----> |< ^ >| |
|# | #| |
output---> -----|#... ^...#| |
screen | |# | #| |
two | |< ^ >| |
| |# | #| |
| |# ^ #|----- |
| |# | #| ! |
| |< ^ >| ! |
| |# | #| ```! | wired to
| |#... ^ ...#|--------!---------------| earth
| |# | #| ..! | ground
| |< ^ >| ! |
| |# | #| ! |
| |#...^ ...#|------ <--output |
| |# | #| screen |
| |< ^ >| one |
| |# | #| |
-----|# ^ #| |
|# | #| |
|< ^ >| |
|# | #| |
|# ^ #| -----------------------
|# | #|
````^````
^ ^ SKY
| | | ^
AIRFLOW ^ ^ ^ |
| | | |
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |
->------->------->-------^ ^ ^-------<------<------<- GROUND
-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------
This design has a few other problems besides polarity switching and V/A transformation of the kelvin generator. What happens if it starts raining and the rain drops (ionic particle) start traveling (moved by gravity) against the humidity/dust (ionic particle) in the ground to sky airflow and it starts working as a classic kelvin generator? What happens if much faster airflow happens ground side and reverses the venturi? Can you flare one end of the pipe into a cone to prevent that type of backflow?
Whew! The armchair kinda took off there, but that's how I'd see a no moving parts wind generation scheme.
If you could incorporate an electret into the scheme such as was produced here:
http://www.esdjournal.com/static/shower/shower.html(read this too)
http://www.nuenergy.org/alt/radiant_energy_diatribe.htmthe screen lining of the inside of the pipe becomes MUCH less involved as the electret acts as the inductor, but most homebrew attempts at electret making seem to report failure.
Since he's "made his name" in RFID during experimentation with them he found a way to make a efficient electret using electrostatic electrical traces like those used to mass produce RFID antennas?
As to how the collected current could be transformed into a lower volt-higher amp usable current is the biggest stumbling block for all electrostatic devices as efficiencies run about 15-20% for spark gap/coil/transformer.
Just some not-so-grounded-in-reality guesses.....
EDIT: Getting the ASCII art to show up correctly was a BIT**!
