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If i understand correctly, this means that electric power is directly related to air flow = air speed. So if, you put a relevant rotor in the vacuum cleaner, you get 2000W. Should not be too difficult.

No you won't. With a pressure gradient on the order of tenths of atmosphere per meter, you get a considerable loss from friction. You'd be lucky to recover 200 W from a setup like that.

Hard to believe. Can a rotor and couple of gears rise price from 3e/MW to 80e/MW?

And a tower. And grid connection. And transformers. And installation. And output governors. And you're converting a pressure gradient into electricity, which is a lot harder than converting electricity into a pressure gradient.

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Mar 3rd, 2011 at 04:11:19 PM EST
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Similarly, you assumed that your generator would survive 8600 hours of continuous operation. Assuming that your average household vacuum cleaner is used for three hours every week, that translates to a lifespan of something like fifty years.

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Mar 3rd, 2011 at 04:16:55 PM EST
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