New Approach to Wind Energy?

Wind energy is based on removing some of the kinetic energy from a certain volume of moving wind and converting it to electricity.  Think of the volume of wind that passes through the area bound by the circular movement of our traditional three-bladed system, moving at a certain speed.  Then ask yourself: How much volume of air, traveling at the same speed, passes close to one of those poles?

It’s a tiny fraction, which is why the closest we’ve come to making this a reality is some claim that “Scientists in Timbuktu may have made current wind turbines obsolete.”

If there’s anything to this (which there isn’t) how about this: Instead of talking about it for 15 years, just pound a pole into the ground, and measure how much energy these wobbles/vibrations is generated.