Some eighty-three years ago, aircraft pilot Major Kurt Bilau (formerly of the Imperial German Air Corps) was intrigued by the abilities a properly designed propeller; he applied his curiosity to the design of a windmill in order to experiment with the possibility harnessing the power of the wind as a source of energy.
This magazine article briefly explains what a success that experiment was. Bilau’s “aerodynamo” was able to convert a sixteen-mile per/hour wind into an amount of energy that was measured at sixty horsepower.
1925 early green energy magazine articlewind power harnessed for energy 1925Major Kurt Bilau prophet of green energy 1925
1925 early green energy magazine articlewind power harnessed for energy 1925Major Kurt Bilau prophet of green energy 1925