There are various areas where the wind blows quite a bit and bright, sunny days are not the norm. In those conditions, then maybe it makes total sense to install one of these systems instead of a typical solar rooftop installation.
I would even expect an example where 50% more energy was actually achieved to be set up in one of those areas. Since no example was given, it makes you wonder how extreme the conditions have to be for this new technology to make sense.
My conditions are: an area of Illinois a few miles down the road from a wind farm, in a neighborhood with lots of big old trees (which block my roof from the sun for a large portion of the sunny part of the year).
Nothing extreme at all, yet this would also be a great solution for me since I won't cut down the trees that drew me to the place to being with. Whether or not this is the specific tech, I'd love to get some small scale wind generation since a couple of KW worth of solar panels would be a waste of money for me.
Typically those trees cause the wind to be turbulent, like the dirty air coming off the back of a race car. Normally a wind turbine wants to be mounted high up in the air where the wind is all moving in one direction fairly uniformly. It's unlikely that this technology will naturally overcome that.
Yeah, those are good considerations. I live on Oahu, on the dry side, and when it isn't blaring sunlight, its pretty much 5-15 sustained. Obviously, this a pretty cherry picked example, but its also an important one considering the cost of importing fuel to this island.
I would even expect an example where 50% more energy was actually achieved to be set up in one of those areas. Since no example was given, it makes you wonder how extreme the conditions have to be for this new technology to make sense.