Old clothes dryer to vertical wind turbine

Once you ditch the expensive clothes dryer for a cheap solar solution (aka, clothesline) what do you do with your old machine?

Well, Robert Murray Smith of FWG labs has recently been into vertical axis wind turbines.
In one of his latest experiments, he converted an old clothes dryer into a wind turbine.

Here's how to do it.

(spoiler for those with limited internet: cut slits in the drum and tweak them outward to approx 35 degrees.)

And here are some performance tests:
[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4AkVj-qnJxNtKuz3rkq16A[/youtube]

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I ran across an article about using a washing machine motor as the generating part of the turbine:

http://velacreations.com/howto/chispito/

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Fantastic idea on which am going to tackle, be it when using my disc grinder I'll be wearing eye protection and earmuffs...