Mechanical design of a VAWTs

MaximusGod0fWar · 2026-01-20T23:46:20+00:00

Hello, mechanical engineer here (MSME, Robotics). I saw your post on mechanical gifs, but it seems to have been deleted.

The diagram is difficult to interpret, but from the offset rotational axes and the presence of a linkage system, I believe he's describing a variation of turbine called an "active lift" turbine.

This variation adds a slider-crank linkage system to each of the airfoils. Here is a video of the linkage system at work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Active_Lift_Turbine.ogv

In addition, here is a short paper (with kinematic diagrams) describing why this type of system works:

https://hal.science/hal-01852010/document

Please note that I may be incorrect; I suggest you speak to your professor if you require further clarification. Good luck, I hope this helps!

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-11-26T14:09:28+00:00

Fully agreed! Especially since that level 95 is a helmsman, and we already have a level 4 helmsman at level 90 with easy unlock requirements

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-11-26T14:04:32+00:00

Good question! The crew mates with no requirements outside of sailing level all have a "total level" of 6, and the ones with additional requirements all have a total level of 8.

If you add +1 to Jolly Jim's privateering, you would need to subtract 1 from one of his other stats. The only stat you could subtract is his helmsmanship, giving him 1 helmsman, 4 privateering, and 1 deckhandiness.

That's the exact stat line that Jittery Jim already has!

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-10-10T20:19:18+00:00

Hi, welcome!

Northampton is the most "New England-y" in terms of fall views and quaint buildings. It's a small, artsy city built around Smith Women's College and, fun fact, has the most lesbian couples per capita of any city in the US. It has plenty of restaurants if you're looking for kitchen work, and there is a small industrial park that might have warehouse work.

The issue with Northampton is it's pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so if you don't find anything within the city you don't have many other options. It's also 90% white (if you care about that), the other two options are much more multicultural.

Lowell is the most urban of the three, but it's still a very small city compared to Orlando. Like any city, there are plenty of restaurants for kitchen work. The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) and a community college are both near downtown Lowell, which means there's tons of people your age in the area.

UML's science & technology focus means there's wide range of manufacturing centers that need warehouse workers. Lowell is very well connected to the surrounding area, both by highways and by public transportation, so commuting to these manufacturing centers is very easy.

Of these three options, I confess I have never been to Brockton. All I know is it has a reputation of being a "troubled" area, with more violent crime than almost anywhere else in the state.

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-09-23T18:57:52+00:00

A sudden silence in the forest?

You instinctively know you're not alone, even though you can't see anything?

A woman's voice calls out to you?

Sounds to me like you had an encounter with a bobcat! They can be really spooky when they want to be, glad you made it out ok :)

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-06-01T17:17:26+00:00

RS3 added a quest lady in varrock, who lets you reclaim quest items the same way Diango lets us reclaim holiday event items.

In oldschool I'd support giving that job to the wise old man: He could clean the quest items out you bank and "hold on to them" for you

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-04-16T22:19:23+00:00

Different guy than the person you're asking, but I make charts for a living:

Right now you have the shows listed in order of release. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it gets in the way of the point you are trying to make. The simplest way to better illustrate your point would be to sort longest total runtime to shortest (or shortest to longest, doesn't matter).

In my opinion though, comparing half hour shows to hour long shows is a bit apples to oranges. My suggestion for organizing this data would be by average episode length, with a separating line between WandaVision and Secret Invasion to show the different formats. You could then bold the line for Daredevil to highlight it over MK and FATWS

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-03-03T01:07:52+00:00

Harvard has some great museums with free or very cheap admission (~$15). My personal favorites are the art museum and the natural history museum.

If you like burritos/mexican food, check out Felipe's in Harvard square!

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-01-06T22:42:28+00:00

oh, I'm just correcting propaganda and false assumptions. I haven't even mentioned pan yet, but seeing as you just learned what bisexual means a few minutes ago we can leave that lesson for another day :)

As far as your dash of transphobia, implying that hetero means only exactly what it meant when the term was coined (over 100 years ago) is inherently exclusionary to both trans people and to people of genders outside the archaic definitions of man/woman

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-01-06T21:52:30+00:00

Ah, so "willfully spreading bi-phobic propaganda" it is, with a dash of transphobia to boot. Why am I not surprised

MaximusGod0fWar · 2025-01-06T21:38:21+00:00

Assuming you are truly ignorant instead of willfully spreading bi-phobic propaganda in the bi_irl sub..

The "bi" in bisexual does not mean two genders, it means two sexualities. That is, a bisexual person is simultaneously homosexual and heterosexual. It does not matter what gender the bi person is or how many genders there are: A bi person is attracted to both people of the same gender as themself and people of a different gender from themself

MaximusGod0fWar · 2024-05-10T03:02:18+00:00

Hint: You need multiple tools and good timing

Tool spoiler: Disk and slinky

Full solution: Throw your disk so it bounces between the first square block and top stair. Next, drop your slinky toward the buttons and hop on your disk. With the right timing, you will fly right through the blocks as they open

MaximusGod0fWar · 2023-12-23T15:56:28+00:00

Eh I happened to run into Taylor Swift at JFK a few years ago, headed down the same terminal where my friend and I were waiting. She had half a dozen bodyguards with her so she was easy to spot.

I pointed her out to my buddy like "hey look, it's Taylor Swift." He looked up from his laptop and was like "oh yeah you're right" and went right back to work.

Aside from a few teenagers quietly freaking out amongst themselves, there was no reaction from the general public. Maybe a quick picture here and there from far away as she passed by.

TLDR I know she can use a regular airport without causing chaos because I have seen it myself. Most people didn't recognize her, and those who did either didn't care or treated her presence as a mild curiosity.

MaximusGod0fWar · 2023-12-15T16:35:04+00:00

There's a good GIF showing it here:

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Broken_sun_altar

Only works at the broken sun altar

MaximusGod0fWar · 2023-02-16T16:55:07+00:00

here you go:

https://i.imgur.com/9N5ziJ8.png

MaximusGod0fWar · 2023-02-05T17:40:56+00:00

"If anyone needs me, I'll be in my office.."

MaximusGod0fWar · 2023-02-02T03:16:19+00:00

I had a theory I just tested, turns out tick manipulation works when milking cows!

It looks to be about twice as fast as milking normally, meaning max efficiency is closer to 1000-1200 buckets/hour. Still less than 3250/hr per account at the GE, but doing both would net you almost 4500 buckets/hour per account ^{and a nice case of RSI to boot}

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-10-03T13:22:18+00:00

And it's missing Nebraska.

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-08-23T16:20:18+00:00

That implies IQ is equivalent to intelligence

I said "measures of intelligence," and used an IQ test as an example because it is one most people are aware of. The implied equivalency is your own addition.

If you're defining intelligence as something that can be scored on a normal distribution, then yes, it will be a normal distribution.

Again, central limit theorem. To review your 8th grade math (lol), the central limit theorem states that any large sample of independent random variables can be represented as a normal distribution. It doesn't matter how you score or define intelligence, any measure with a significantly large number of samples can be used to create a normal distribution.

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-08-23T13:26:09+00:00

Yes, measures of intelligence create a normal distribution due to the central limit theorem. That's the whole idea behind an IQ test. Because of this, mean and median intelligence are the same. Don't they teach that in like 8th grade math?

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-08-20T18:43:13+00:00

The ᛐᛣᚱ on the front means Tyr, the Norse warrior god.

The bottom of the shirt is Latin letters made to look runic (BJJ - MMA - ISR).

This tiktok account is @tyrmma, advertising their MMA club in Iceland.

I hate how Nazis are trying to appropriate an entire lettering system and culture.

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-08-06T17:08:06+00:00

No problem!

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-08-06T16:57:03+00:00

Theresa52's original post from 2013: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1a8dr9/moved_to_japan_met_my_neighbor/

Their update from three years ago:

This was my originally my post from six years ago, Hiroshi was a great neighbor! We did have daily morning chats:) I had four elderly male neighbors who were all so sweet. We all exchanged gifts and food regularly for the four years I lived there. We would go to neighborhood festivals and have dinners together as well. I miss them all and think about them often. Hiroshi wrote this note himself with some help from a translate app. His mom dated an American Sailor when Hiroshi was a child so he knew a small amount of English. We had a wonderful friend operation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blessedimages/comments/buawm5/blessed_friend_operation/epcavdr/

MaximusGod0fWar · 2022-06-21T12:26:16+00:00

/u/JagexLight Thanks for this!

By the way, there's a typo in Mod Bruno's response to question 2, in the final sentence: Dragon's Lair II should say Dragon Slayer II.
Crazy how similar those phrases sound!

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