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Prior to joining HRC, Andrea had long career in public service. She served as a senior legislative analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation at Department of Health and Human Services, and for the Director at the National Institutes of Health. Her issue areas included: small group insurance market reform, medical privacy (HIPAA), genetic non-discrimination, and health care reform. Andrea moved to the administration after serving as Minority Counsel to the House Select Committee on Aging. An Arizona native, her public career began in the office of her congressman, Rep. John J. Rhodes III, where she handled health and judiciary issues.
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Progressive Bloc (Russia)
Progressive Bloc was an alliance of political forces in the Russian Empire. It was formed when the State Duma of the Russian Empire was recalled to session during World War I, the response of Nicholas II of Russia to mounting social tensions. In July 1915, the Progressist Party combined with the Kadet Party, Left Octobrists, and Nationalists to form a political front in the Duma that supported a social-chauvinist stance towards the continuation of World War I and called for a responsible parliamentary government. In the lead up to the February revolution 1917, it is often argued to play a crucial role in the uprising's success through the suggestion to Tsar Nicholas II that he should establish a 'government of public confidence'. The Tsar instead made little attempt to make political reform or slip into a constitutional monarch that, potentially, could have saved the Romanov dynasty.[1]
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Today on Business Rockstars, Ken Rutkowski talks with serial entrepreneur Pooneh Mohajer, who co-founded Hard Candy, a color cosmetics company that rapidly grew to produced sales of $10,000,000 in less than 24 months. After selling Hard Candy to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy in 1999, she started the global lifestyle brand, tokidoki.
Pooneh Mohajer, COO and Co-Founder of tokidoki, is a serial entrepreneur at heart. Tokidoki is her third company to date. Since debuting in 2005, tokidoki has amassed a cult-like following for its larger-than-life characters and emerged as a sought-after global lifestyle brand. This innovative Company is known not only for its eye-popping aesthetic and criminally cute characters but also its megawatt partnerships with evergreen brands such as Hello Kitty, Karl Lagerfeld, LeSportsac, Barbie, Sephora, Marvel and others.
Pooneh loves entrepreneurship and all the challenges of running a business. She also co-founded Hard Candy Inc., a color cosmetics Company that revolutionized the nail enamel and cosmetic industries worldwide with innovative products. Hard Candy's explosive growth produced sales of $10,000,000 in less than 24 months. In 1999, Pooneh successfully sold Hard Candy Inc. to LVMH, Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, an international luxury goods conglomerate. Her abilities are multifaceted ranging from strategic marketing to product and brand development to overall corporate strategy, including high-level contract negotiation, corporate structuring, and financial operations.
After Hard Candy and before tokidoki, Pooneh co-founded Creative Branding & Design, LLC dba damnBRAND which was a full service ecommerce management firm focused on partnering with fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands. Client-partners included Oliver Peoples, Smashbox Cosmetics, Trina Turk, Bisou Bisou, Hot Kiss, Philip B, ABS by Allen Schwartz, and Black Eyed Peas. damnBRAND provided a complete outsourced solution for its clients' online operations including design and development of online stores, hosting, merchandise selection, digital imaging, online merchandising, secure order transactions, inventory management, order fulfillment, returns processing and customer service.
Pooneh received her Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 1994. She also received a BA from Vanderbilt University in 1987. She has been a member of EO, Entrepreneurs' Organization, since 1996, having previously served on its LA Chapter Board. EO is a premier, peer-to-peer, global community, network and resource for entrepreneurs with over 8,000 members in chapters around the world.
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The symbol of Baphomet was used by the Knights Templar to represent Satan. Through the ages this symbol has been called by many different names. Among these are: The Goat of Mendes, The Goat of a Thousand Young, The Black Goat, The Judas Goat, and perhaps most appropriately, The Scape-goat. Baphomet represents the Powers of Darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. In it's "pure" form the pentagram is shown encompassing the figure of a man in the five points of the star - three points up, two pointing down - symbolising man's spiritual nature. In Satanism the pentagram is also used, but since Satanism represents the carnal instincts of man, or the opposite of the spiritual nature, the pentagram is inverted to perfectly accommodate the head of the goat - it's horns, representing duality, thrust upwards in defiance; the other three points inverted, or the trinity denied. The Hebraic figures around the outer circle of the symbol which stem from the magical teachings of the Kabala, spell out "Leviathan," the serpent of the watery abyss, and identified with Satan. These figures correspond to the five points of the inverted star.
H.P. Lovecraft used "The Black goat with a thousand young" as another name for Yog-Sothoth. I'm not entirely sure that it was used to describe the Pentagram or Satan.
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Voiceover: Sometimes it's not until retirement that people face up to their embarrassing bodies. David's been suffering in silence about a very personal problem that has always dogged his sex life.
David: When I've had sexual relations, I've had to fiddle about and bring it back into place afterwards which is embarrassing and inconvenient.
Dr Pixie: Nice to meet you David. Why have you come to the clinic today?
David: Well, I've had a bit of concern about the way my foreskin works. When it gets pushed down it doesn't come back again.
Dr Pixie: Do you recall any problem with your foreskin when you were younger or in your teens?
David: In my teens there was one occasion when the foreskin was pushed down and it stayed down. The skin in that area swelled up and I went to accident and emergency and they basically just pulled the foreskin back and it all settled down.
Voiceover: David suffers from a common condition called Phimosis where the foreskin cannot be fully retracted.
Dr Pixie: Now, do you just want to gently try to retract that for me? And that's when it starts to get…
David: And then it stays there and it doesn't go back.
Dr Pixie: And that's the difficult bit, right. God it's quite a task isn't it?
David: Yeah, it is, yeah.
Dr Pixie: It's quite common to have a foreskin that's difficult to get back and the only real way we're going to resolve this issue is by actually using a urologist with a view of having something like a circumcision. Is that all right with you?
David: That's fine.
Dr Pixie: Brilliant, well let's get that sorted.
Voiceover: Dr Pixie has arranged for David to be examined by consultant Mr Manu Nair. So what are David's options?
Mr Nair: It is difficult to bring back, it is difficult to pull through. There is, like I said, a constriction zone. The simplest surgery would be preputioplasty which is making an incision lengthwise instead of the other way to loosen the skin. The other procedure you could have is a circumcision where you just take the whole foreskin away.
Voiceover: Earlier David came to see Dr Pixie with a rather embarrassing foreskin problem. He's opted for an operation called preputioplasty which involves slitting the foreskin to widen it rather than removing it altogether with a circumcision. His consultant Mr Nair detaches the frenulum, a small fold of tissue that restricts the foreskin and then he loosens the restrictive belt by making an incision.
Mr Nair: I've cut it lengthwise, but you can see the way the nature of the tightness has extended the skin, which is what my objective was.
Voiceover: All that's needed is a few stitches to secure David's larger foreskin.
Mr Nair: All done. Thanks.
Voiceover: After a few weeks of healing time there is no reason why he can't enjoy a full sex life.
Dr Pixie meets a patient who has suffered for many years with a common condition called phimosis, where the foreskin of the penis cannot easily be retracted. Treatment is administered by simple surgery and there are a number of options available such as circumcision, where the foreskin is entirely removed, or preputioplasty, which involves a small incision to the foreskin so that it can be loosened.
If your child has a painful penis he may be suffering from paraphimosis, to find out more check the condition guide for parents on Embarrassing Bodies: Kids website.
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Hi I'm 20 and Ive recently been experiencing tight foreskin and I cannot push it down enough to see the head of my penis. I'm really worried and don't want a circumcision. What else can I do?
I'm 16 and have a tight foreskin when I am masterbating I can only see the top of my head, I have never been able to see my head fully. I have had sex but it felt uncomfortable any suggestions?
Im 14 and i have tought foreskin and my penis is really small .like 2in erected. I dont think its normal and i feel very uncomfortable being around girls because of this.pls help me
I ment tight foreskin
im 14 and my foreskin wont retrac fully can i jut get circumcision i talked to my mum about and she helped me and said lets go to the doctors what should i do?
Am 55 and just goin on a year now my foreskin is tightin rite up and theres redest marks on the head of the of it so what do I do am seein my doctor today but when havein sex if I lube it up sex is ok
Hello, I'm 17 and masturbating with a tight foreskin has caused tears beneath my glans, and inflammation and oversensivity of the glans. What to do?
Hi I am 18 years old I cant remember a time I have been able to pull my foreskin back all the way, when I has younger I used a masturbation method that may have caused damage to my penis, the top of my penis looks a bit swollen and that looks like what may be stopping me pulling it back, when I try and pull it back I can only reveal part of the head and when I touch it it is really sensitive. I have ditched the damaging masturbation method and stuck to the normal one however my foreskin will still not pull back. Is it a case of leave it and wait for it to heal or is there anything else I can do. Also if I ever do manage to pull it back what can I do about my sensitive penis head, it really hurts when I touch it, all comments appreciated. Thanks
Hi I'm 16 and have tight foreskin and it can go past the glans when erect but no further and it kinda sits underneath it.When flaccid it's fine,I've heard that your foreskin detaches from the glans in puberty? Is this the reason why or is it something else? And that cream sounds good but wouldn't like to face my parents.
I'm 16 years old, and currently have a tight foreskin, most of my friends have started to have sexual inter course but I'm afraid it might effect my sex life, I've thought about going to the doctor but it is embarrassing at this age to explain your situation, can someone help?
There is a cream you can get to help loosen the skin with stretching exercises, it's called Betamethasone. You can ask the doctor or pharmacist for it. The idea is you use it around the tight area of the foreskin then stretch it. You will need to do this every day until you can move the foreskin freely up and down. There is a possibility the frenulum is stopping the skin retracting though so you should find the courage to first see your doctor who will suggest things or direct you to a urologist. See this page also; http://www.network54.com/Forum/244184/thread/1375265347/last-1375380910/Betamethasone,+stretching+the+foreskin+and+frenulum
The doctor will have heard your story a thousand times before and will be very professional about it so no embarrassment at all. Just start of by saying directly "My foreskin is a bit tight doctor, what can be done?". They will most probably explain that you can help it by stretching the skin yourself. They may offer some cream to help. They may not even ask you to show them it at this point. At your age you should still be growing so changes to the body can still affect the penis. If none of the advice or cream helps then at least they will know why you are coming back to see them again next time so you shouldn't need to explain everything again. They may then refer you to the urologist.
I'm 15 and I have recently gotten more concerned about my foreskin. I have yet to fully pull my foreskin over the head dreading it wont go back into place. I have done a considerable amount of research about any kind of easy way to try and fix it. Stretching exercises didn't really help, but yet it seems the most profitable way of getting it sorted is to go to the doctors. Which I don't really admire to. Any help I would be greatfull
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Jan. 1, 2013 at 10:38pm, the Brunswick County Communication Center received a fight in progress call with baseball bats at 6524 Farm Meadows Rd, in Leland. Deputies were dispatched and upon arrival they found Hartford Talmage Sellers III age 26, unresponsive lying in the driveway at 6524 Farm Meadow Rd. He was transported to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Another subject, Boyd Harrelson age 43, was also transported to NHRMC, and later released.
On January 4th, 2013, Brunswick County Sheriff's Detectives also arrested William Joseph Connolly for the assault on Hartford Talmage Sellers III, which occurred January 1st, 2013.
The victim in this case, Hartford Talmage Sellers III passed away on Friday, January 4. As a result, Boyd Franklin Harrelson, Jr has been charged with second degree Murder in the death of Mr. Sellers. Harrelson remains in the Brunswick County Detention Center. No bond has been set for the Second Degree Murder. The investigation is still on-going and further information will be released when it becomes available.
If anyone has information about this case that occurred January 1st, on Farm Meadows Rd, in Leland, please contact Lt. Donna Simpson at 910-880-4952 or 910-253-2777.
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6579 Farm Meadows Dr,
Leland, NC
Bond: $5,000
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Boyd Franklin Harrelson Jr, Age: 43
Bond: $180,000.00
6543 Farm Meadows Dr, Leland, NC
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"I wouldn't say the implementation of online multiplayer in SpeedRunners is perfect - in fact it's far from it," admits the dev. "But at least it's working to a degree at which players do believe that they're in the same game world as their opponents, resulting in an enjoyable game experience."
This is the most important advice that any developer looking to implement online multiplayer should take note of, he says -- don't try to make everything perfect from the start, or else you'll end up with months of creating complex systems that simply don't work properly.
"It's more important to get something working," he adds. "Once you've got that rough, first, buggy version up and running, you can start improving specific areas, while setting up tests so that people can actually use it in the wild. That way, you'll focus more on the important parts. It also gives you a better sense of progression, which is important in keeping up morale."
And, he adds, if you are planning to implement online multiplayer in your game, you should really be doing it from the get-go. "We tried to add it on after the main game was already more or less finished, which turned out to make everything that much more complicated," van Est says.
"It's not about creating a world that is the exact same for every player - it's about creating an experience in which each player believes they're operating in the same world as the other players."
For DoubleDutch, they were convinced that online multiplayer would add large-scale value to the game, and they turned out to be right. van Est doubts the game would have been as successful as it has been on PC without online multiplayer.
"People nowadays seem to prefer playing online against their friends, rather than invite them over to play on the couch, especially PC games," he reasons. "However, it's important to realize that online multiplayer and offline multiplayer are two very different things, not only from a technical standpoint, but also in terms of gameplay. A lot of things that work well in an offline setting, playing with friends on a couch, don't necessarily translate well into an online environment, where you're playing against strangers."
And another advantage of successfully implementing online multiplayer into your game, notes the dev, is that in the eyes of players, you'll have an advantageous selling point over your competitors.
"I'd love for our next project to be another online multiplayer game, even if that's going to be difficult," he adds. "In the end I think it comes down to what your passion is, and for me that's bringing people together using games; whether that's improving the bond between friends of making new friends."
"I believe the best way to do that is through online multiplayer games, so that's what I want to make, as difficult though that might turn out be."
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"It's not about creating a world that is the exact same for every player - it's about creating an experience in which each player believes they're operating in the same world as the other players."
Very clever concept.
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Online multiplayer is one of the most difficult things to implement in game development, even in a turn-based strategy game such as I'm developing, the issues mount up if you want the player to be able to see a replay or have an Undo option, but having said all of that when I look back on most of the games I've had most fun with over the years they have been multiplayer games both online and local play.
@clankingdom is going to be online multiplayer only to start with, and my next game after that is also going to be online multiplayer. I think some aspect of playing with or against other people is essential in a game these days.
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Nothing exactly new nor defying common knowledge regarding opinions and advices.
Still, very interesting and somewhat reassuring to read it coming from people with way more experience than me, if not for any other reason, just to give me some peace of mind that I'm not being an old geezer telling them kids to stop playing online and all sit on my couch for some local co-op like in the old days.
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One thing is often missed about online multiplayer is that it is as much a design challenge as it is a technical challenge. Screw up a few logistical key concepts and if your concurrency isn't high enough, no one gets to play. Matches that require a fixed number of player and synced start times are deadly. You don't design a game and make it online multiplayer. You design an online multiplayer game.
(An older essay on the topic: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanielCook/20140104/208021/What_Iv
Local multiplayer is a tricky fallback. It has been around for ages and has some well known drawbacks.
1) It tends to be played by a handful of people that are able to get together regularly in the same physical space. Kids, college students, roommates. Almost all other groups are rarely in situations that allow for couch play. Developers are prone to testing bias here, because they are one of the few groups that plays games together locally. :-) "Hey, we are having fun! So will everyone else." Nope...because they aren't like you.
2) It isn't actually played that often. Most couch games have play patterns similar to board games. They come out on rare gatherings and gather dust otherwise.
3) Since both retention and engagement are low (for 99% of the audience), it is always a premium product. You need to get money up front for a game that the buyers will almost never play. This limits DLC and IAP if this was a consideration.
4) Because the value proposition isn't that great for most players, you end up making a single player game anyway in order to sell it. So scope increases as do costs. Historically, local multiplayer only games don't sell well (10-20X difference) You may not be in it for the money, but a consideration.
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|Curtiss Murphy
I struggled with multiplayer networking for years, until I eventually compiled my lessons into a chapter in Game Engine Gems 2, "Believable Dead Reckoning for Networked Games" (PM me with your email for a PDF copy).
I loved this article! This quote sums it up: "Online multiplayer is the most complex part of game development there is," says developer Joost van Dongen, bluntly. "Adding online multiplayer roughly doubles the programming time needed to make a game, especially if this is the first time for a developer."
|Kevin Fishburne
My two cents on how I got online multiplayer working in my game:
1) The only player input sent to the server is raw gamepad data or a text string for chatting.
2) The client and server have an incoming transaction queue, outgoing transaction queue and outgoing transaction queue history for resending transactions not acknowledged in time.
3) The server updates different types of world data at different rates so that more important things like player transaction handling take precedence.
4) I use custom UDP transaction/packet handling to enforce transaction ordering and preventing double-execution of inappropriately resent transactions.
5) The server processes all clients each "frame" and concatenates like transactions so they may be sent to a player as a single transaction, reducing overhead when many players are in the same area.
6) Clients receive new data only when it has changed and never at a rate higher than 10 FPS.
7) Clients have "current" and "target" positions/orientations/etc. The current position is what's being rendered and the target position is their true position as sent by the server. The current position is interpolated toward the target position each client render frame. This creates the appearance of inertia and masks latency.
The main things not yet implement that I'll need to watch for are clients sending bad data (too much or too little) that could crash the server and clients flooding the server with a transaction (DoS attack).
Implementing this was my first real experience with network programming, and while I can say it was damned difficult, it wasn't the most difficult thing I'd ever experienced. So if you're going to do it, before you write a line of code, plan it out in detail. You'll save a few burst blood vessels and it will hopefully do what you need it to without being easily exploitable.
|Ashkan Saeedi Mazdeh
We've been working on a online only tank game like the old games (alikes of battle city) , playing it around the office has been so fun and David Aldidge's talk was so helpful as others said. I've worked both on multiplayer tech and games and I agree that it's hard. Some problems of it can become easier like the problem of testing and finding bugs but some are essential and will never be easy unless we can move data with speeds faster than light speed which will not be surely tomorrow :)


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i find myself, just about every day of my life, quickly and completely wrapped up in something. my mind works in tangents of doing, considering, existing in a particular space. some thought enters. before it has a chance to stretch out and articulate itself, my mind wraps it up in intricate, gauzy fabric, rendering it unable to leave - at least not until fully explored, examined by my senses. i'll obsess, say, over a song for three days straight. it's in playing in my head. i have to hear it. i have to listen to it a million times. i must ride the waves of incessant fascination until the urge just dissipates of its very own volition… inside my brain, a thing must do work and be worked on until the job is finished. i never know what the job is. what the meaning or relevance might be. there's no time to question it because the thing is just there and i am temporarily rapt. a piece of artwork. a fear. a food craving. a particular word. an abstract concept. whatever it is, it can, at any moment, become the subject of my own uniquely child-like laser-focused attention. as it consumes me, i consume it, and we live in the oddest communion until my consciousness bids it adieu… and moves on to something else.
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i love you. let's live together in a house of flying doors, or something else just as trite. let's play hide-and-go-seek for the rest of our natural lives, catch a door by the knob and hunker behind. just hide and find and squeal with delight at the finding, until our bones creak like the doors do. and not a drop of wd-40. i love you. no viagra either. just living, falling apart, failing, floundering, finding, laughing into hysterics. and crying. sometimes doors will hit us. this will hurt. but i love you. i'll pick out our splinters and you'll break off door knobs. i'll sing you to sleep every night, holding you like a baby. my voice will crack and my arms will cramp under your weight. your drool will slick down the hair on my arms. i love you. let's not do anything fancier than living. we'll take the day off. the week. the year. the lifetime. just to love… and open doors. open them forever. just promise you'll be behind one of them. i love you.
our generation may very well see the demise of human touch. a representative from a government agency gave a talk to my daughter's preschool classroom about appropriate and inappropriate touch. fine.
but then my daughter came home to tell me about it. she said, "it's easier to just keep your hands to yourself. that's what the teacher said. then you know you're not touching anybody in a bad way." i was afraid.
ring-around-the-rosey and london bridge don't exist without touching. we cannot play patty-cake, give a high-five or engage in peaknuckle war without touch. the touch-free world is devoid of the fist fight (remember when that was the climax of a dispute?), the kiss, the nudge, the embrace and the making of love.
the touch-free world is not a world, but a cell. can you even imagine how cold? government officials were all newborns once, and they would have died without touch.
i told my daughter it probably IS easier to keep her hands to herself, but it's very hard to love that way.
touch nicely. touch carefully. ask permission, if you must. if that's what we've come to. but please, don't stop. don't stop touching.
if you do, everything we know of intimacy (and of life) is lost.
our generation may very well live to see the complete demise of books. i'm afraid. i know the country is in shambles and the rest of the world isn't looking much better and the entire world as we know it will probably come to an end soon. maybe not in my generation, but most likely my child's generation. that's scary, but i'm not AS afraid of that as i am of the idea of a world without books.
there is nothing like owning a book. holding a book. reading a book. dog-earing and bookmarking pages. cracking or preserving the spine. touching new pages. smelling ink and history. lying across a couch or bed, reading a book. there are certain muscles in the hands and wrists that can be exercised properly ONLY by holding and manipulating a REAL BOOK during the act of reading. yes, there are iPads and Nooks, and they are totally not the same. i want pencil outlines, highlighter marks, someone else's tedious notes in a second-hand book. coffee stains. signs of human life.
if all of humanity is going to be consumed in a brilliant soup of flames, i will most mourn the loss of connection to books… and the way they made us connect to each other.


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Some groups and individuals tout alternative technologies for wind generation, especially vertical- as opposed to the horizontal-axis wind turbines normally used. They make a variety of claims about power generation, noise, bird friendliness and others that in their minds make it a superior technology.
So why aren't vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT) in their various forms more broadly used?
Short Answer:
Vertical-axis wind turbines trade one set of compromises for another, and typically not favourably. They typically require twice the swept area and four times the material to generate the same electricity as horizontal-axis wind turbines. At this point, no one has been able to make the balance work out in their favour except in niche roles. And, frankly, they are solving non-existent problems.
Long Answer:
It's worth starting with some examples of the various forms of vertical axis wind turbines out there.
Here are a couple of examples of refined vertical-axis wind turbines with aerodynamic blades:
There are less efficient and refined wind generators as well, based on very old principles such as the Savonius design (named for a Finnish engineer who created a variant of it in 1922), examples of which are shown below.
Simple drag vertical-axis wind turbines have a long history, and a version was used as the first electrical generating wind turbine ever, built by Professor James Blyth of Scotland to power his holiday home in 1887.
Here, for comparison, is a set of offshore, highly refined, triblade, horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT):
Their primary characteristics are three aerodynamic blades facing the wind and rotating around a horizontal axis.
VAWT Proponents Overstate Advantages
1. Utility-scale wind farms are set up where winds are relatively stable, so catching the wind from any direction isn't a particular advantage.
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs catch the wind from any angle, making them more effective than HAWTs. Catching shifting winds and eddies from any direction is only an advantage in small-scale situations such as urban or rooftop settings. Horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) are set up in areas with steady winds and the blades are well above ground turbulence that causes variable eddies. VAWTs' advantage is only in niche environments. [2]
2. VAWT blades are rarely at an optimal angle to the wind or in clean air, so they can never be as efficient as a triblade HAWT and won't generate more electricity
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs generate more electricity than HAWTs. Point 1 above dispels this, but what else comes into play? Energy generation is a factor of surface area of blades exposed to wind plus aerodynamics of the blades (plus other factors of diminishing returns). 4.5 MW HAWTS have massive spans with lots of blade surface catching wind, very aerodynamic blades (with variable pitch and surface area along their length to account for varying speeds) and the three-blade standard allows relatively clean air for them to spin through as the wind carries blade eddies downwind before the next blade passes through.
This diagram provides one perspective on how HAWT blades are operating in clean air.
For another perspective, I created this simple graphical illustration.
VAWTs on the other hand have extreme difficulty achieving the same balance of surface area, aerodynamics and 'clean' air for best laminar flow. The majority of the time the blades are not presenting optimal surface area to the oncoming wind, but rather very sub-optimal surface areas. Only the blade in the very front is in clean air; as the blades rotate, they pass into very turbulent air with much lower efficiency of aerodynamics.
This graphic clearly illustrates the turbulence blades to the rear of the device pass through.
At least one commenter is dissatisfied with this clear illustration, so I developed this graphic to push the point home more clearly.
The odds that a VAWT of equivalent area will generate as much electricity as a triblade HAWT are virtually nil, and they typically will use four times the material to generate half the electricity for a given swept area resulting in a low lifecycle cost of electricity. [2], [5]
3. HAWTs almost never collapse due to lateral stress, and VAWTs typically have very asymmetrical front and rear stresses on their bearings
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs produce less stress on the stalk. This is engineering and economics. HAWTs collapse extremely rarely; the engineering is very sound and the full-lifecycle cost analyses show that they are actually the fastest payback form of electrical generation in the world. At present, VAWTs don't generate enough electricity that the full-lifecycle accounting shows them to be advantageous on a cost or materials basis over HAWTs. What problem are they solving? [1], [5]
4. HAWTs have been getting quieter as they get larger, and modern wind farms generate 10 times the electricity with less total noise than older wind farms
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs are quieter. This is unproven actually. The first larger scale, 2 MW VAWT prototype is just being constructed; noise characteristics are undefined as yet. And of course, HAWT refinements continue to keep noise emissions at the same level or lower despite massive increases in size; a 4.5 MW wind turbine is only a dB or two noisier than a 1.5 MW wind turbine, which is much quieter than older 600 kW wind turbines. And 4.5 MW wind turbines are spaced much further apart than smaller wind turbines, so the total environmental noise is actually much less for significantly greater power output. Wind energy is actually remarkable in that it is actually quieter the bigger the generation factor. This is not true for any other from of electrical generation. VAWTs aren't proven to be quieter and are competing with technology which is already very quiet. [3]
5. To generate the same electricity, VAWTs would have to be as tall as HAWTs, so visual impact will be virtually identical
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs have lower visual impact. This is only true for smaller wind generators, closer to the ground, which would be true for smaller HAWTs as well. This is trading off making it less conspicuous for making it less productive which isn't particularly useful. To make them economic for grid-scale generation, they would have to be so big that they would still be very, very visible. VAWTs only really lower visual impact in some cases as some designs are sculptural objects that happen to move, but this is also a very subjective point.
6. Shadow flicker is only a problem at dawn or dusk for few minutes a handful of weeks out of the year for any given home near a wind farm
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs don't generate shadow flicker that is problematic, as that is a factor of the triblade design. Shadow flicker is a vastly over-stated problem. It will only occur for a few minutes at sunrise or sunset for a week or two twice a year at residences near wind farms. HAWT rotation is too slow to cause epileptic seizures (and there are design studies and standards to ensure that this is true). Wind farms typically try to assess their impact on local dwellings and adjust where possible, and all three major wind farm siting tools — WindPro, WindFarm and Windfarmer — includes shadow flicker modelling. Anti-wind advocates drum it up, but you pretty much have to be looking for things to hate about wind turbines to think it's a problem. VAWTs sufficient in scale to generate utility levels of electricity will still be hated by NIMBYs. [4],[8]
7. If all fossil fuel generation were replaced with HAWT wind farms, million fewer birds would die annually
Proponents and inventors claim that VAWTs will kill fewer birds than HAWTs. As HAWT bird mortality rates are typically vastly overstated and are much less than fossil fuel generation, lighted windows, cats, transmission lines, cars and many other sources of avian mortality, this is a straw man argument. As VAWTs scaled up the utility generation capacity have not been built or compared for avian mortality, it's a straw man argument without merit, similar to the noise problem. [7]
Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines have additional disadvantages
1. VAWTs typically aren't high enough off of the ground
The major innovation that has maximized wind turbine capacity factors and generating ability is that they have been getting taller. Laminar flow physics slows the wind down the closer you come to the ground (which I've experienced viscerally while paragliding). VAWT designs have the blades much closer to the ground than HAWTs, so they are losing significant amounts of wind velocity. In order to overcome this, they have to be much higher up, and lose most of their purported advantages. [2]
2. HAWTs work very well
There have been vertical and horizontal axes wind turbines around for decades. There are about 240,000 horizontal axis wind turbines generating electricity in the world today and they are now operating at 35%-47% capacity factors because they are a proven, tested and constantly refined technology. [1], [6], [10]
3. HAWTs have economies of scale
The corollary to HAWTs being the winning technology for all of the reasons listed is that there are very well optimized and integrated supply chains that allow specialization for different wind conditions and good pricing. If VAWTs were actually solving a significant problem, there would be incentive to create subsidies to shift the market, but they don't actually solve sufficient problems to make them worth subsidizing. [1]
There is one model of VAWT that has a specific claimed advantage in that it self-stalls at 27 meters per second, allowing it to be used for small wind generation in areas with frequent very high winds. Of course, utility-scale HAWTs have control systems that automatically brake and feather the blades in these circumstances without an problem whatsoever, but small-wind HAWTs typically do not have these control systems. A niche, but worth considering. [9]
Testing by the Sandia Lab confirms all of the above in side-by-side tests of VAWTs and HAWTs, finding that VAWTs will produce 15-25% less electricity for the same swept area with likely higher costs. [11]
[1] How effective are wind turbines compared to other sources of energy?
[2] The wind doesn't blow all the time. Why doesn't this make wind power ineffective?
[3] Humans evolved with infrasound; is there any truth to health concerns about it?
[4] Wind farms don't make people sick, so why the complaints?
[5] Quora: What are the parameters involved in making a wind turbine blade?
[6] Wind turbines pay back total environmental 'debt' in under six months
[7] How significant is bird and bat mortality due to wind turbines?
[8] UK Shadow Flicker Evidence
[9] http://re-innovations.co.uk
[10] http://www.gwec.net/global-figures/wind-in-numbers/
[11] http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=43&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2220&cHash=b55932dfebd049ab01c1d968670afc1e
See also:
- http://www.wind-works.org/cms/fileadmin/user_upload/Files/Jim_Tangler_VAWTs_AWEA2000b.pdf
- Are airborne wind turbines a plausible source of cheap clean energy?
- Quora: Why is ocean energy used so seldom?
- http://www.motherearthnews.com/Renewable-Energy/2008-02-01/Wind-Power-Horizontal-and-Vertical-Axis-Wind-Turbines.aspx
- http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/08/120820-helix-wind-collapse/


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strong album. congrats.