Once upon a time there was a man named Jacobs who designed wind turbines. In 1933 Admiral Byrd set one of these up on the South pole and many years (and many storms) later the machine was still working. No maintenance, no parts replaced, just incredibly durable and very well designed:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherearthnews.com&#x2F;renewable-energy&#x2F;wind-power-history-zmaz73ndzraw.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherearthnews.com&#x2F;renewable-energy&#x2F;wind-power-h...</a><p>I took a lot of inspiration from that model (but used many modern materials such as Neodymium magnets which were not available at the time).<p>The Jacobs brand survives to this day. I really don&#x27;t understand how Ars could have missed this in their research for the article.