Prototype Design of a Helium Balloon Wind Turbine for a Single Dwelling Unit

The demand for energy requirements is increasing tremendously, and can be met by alternative energy resources such as wind. Wind at high altitudes can generate more power. Since, high altitudes have fast and more consistent wind blowing, airborne wind turbines can generate more power compared to ground-based turbines. By going up above the reach of ground-based turbines, airborne machines chase the consistent and stronger wind resource at altitude. At 2,000 feet wind speeds above 8 m/s are blowing more than 40 percent of the time at most locations in the north. Airborne wind turbines are suspended in the air without a tower, thus saving any expenses on tower construction. The researchers came up with the idea of wind power generation in order to provide energy for a single dwelling unit. The helium balloon wind turbine could collect energy from the wind to storage battery and through an inverter to provide continuous power to the single dwelling unit model which is also built by the researchers. And is effective when it comes to providing power supplied by the wind turbine that varies with varying wind speed, but the power supplied of the turbine could not sustained longer to the load of the single dwelling unit due to power loss.