Hello permies, I am a newbee and hope to learn and contribute to this, and am excited finding so many people buying busy with the change. My name is marcel from the Netherlands living now in Istanbul turkey.
I have seen a very good design from turbina energy which is using permanent magnets and is a vertical axis wind turbine with CAPTURE SCOOPS this tunnels the wind from any direction making it operate on very low speed 1,5 mps
http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/105057332/TURBINA_VAWT_300.html
In alibaba you can find permanent magnets for around 600 +usd.
I am looking for people who are interested to work out this concept together into a cad design and working prototype?
Regards
Marcel