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gales in early year 2000 in Zealand. The air brakes had failed. They
were of the front spoiler type, that is, a solution which the father of
the Danish windmill concept, Johannes Juul, would never have used,
but which the authorities had given their system approval.
Figure 16.21
Wind Matic brochure for the WM 15S model with two
generators of 13 kW and 66 kW output. “Money's in the Air”
as the slogan in the brochure advertises the new wind turbine
with six variants of towers (lattice/tubular; diferent sizes).
Thirteen former Wind Matic people created Tellus after Wind
Matic's collapse when the wind rush in California ended. They were
experienced people such as engineers Rio Ordell and Poul Højholt
who in cooperation with a group of colleagues did in record time
make themselves manifest in the market with a well-designed
80 kW windmill with 8 m LM blades. The windmill had several
similarities to the Wind Matic design, that is the same LM blades.
Thirty-five of these were produced and they performed well.
Later on this wind turbine was followed by an up-scaled version
with blade extenders and a 95 kW generator. Nine of these were
erected on a wind farm by Dragør near the Copenhagen airport
where they saluted guests landing at the airport. 1987 was the year
of disaster. Three out of four windmill producers vanished. Tellus
was one of them.
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