In short
Wind Amplified Rotor Platforms (WARP) is a technology designed to boost wind turbine output, while simplifying the structure of conventional wind turbines. The idea, developed by Texas engineering company Eneco, is to build modules of mobile rotors that could be easily stacked on each other.
His inventor said "WARP is designed so it can also operate as a stand-alone system with fossilfired power plants such as gas turbine, micro-turbine or diesel, housed in the tower base - and reduce fuel consumption and pollutants from 50 to 70 percent."
WARP design concept
The WARP towerThe WARP consists of aerodynamically designed toroidal-shaped amplifier modules which are vertically integrated on a core tower, in building block fashion, allowing the system to be packaged to any power size from utility to commercial or village power scale.
For large capacity systems, each module has two rotors, typically 2-3 meters in diameter. WARP's panelized design also lends itself to the piggybacking of photovoltaic cells on its structure, thus making it possible to add more power (about 10% more) through the use of WARP as a combined wind/PV power system.
The boost in energy output is reached in the WARP modules. The saddle ridge profile as a body of revolution and can therefore accept and amplify the wind from any direction to its turbines. Each vertical module level has two such sites for its wind turbines.
History
The WARP was primarily developed by ENECO's founder, Alfred L. Weisbrich, an aeronautical engineer with years of experience in advanced rotors for fixed and rotary wing aircraft. He was also involved in the development of large conventional and vertical axis wind turbines for the aerospace industry, including the first vertical axis turbine at Kaman Aerospace for Sandia Laboratories, and the development of the world's largest capacity 4,000 kilowatt turbines for the U.S. Department of Energy/NASA.