A researcher from the Center on Water Technology (CITA), Fernando Puentes
Borrero, told ACN that they will measure the volume of water against wind speed and will validate technical solutions for assembling problems, during a year-long period.  
 
Technician on research and innovation of CITA, Osmani Gonzalez Paneque, explained that the prototype emerged from the substitution of Delta windmill components, coming from Canada and very difficult to purchase in the market, for materials existing in Cuba.
 
According to the website of the Higher Polytechnic Institute Jose A. Echevarria (ISPJAE), in Havana, this equipment, with 24 sails in the helix, it is oriented by means of a passive vane system, and bombs water, provides with more oxygen the pond and favors the decrease of pollutants.
 
Gonzalez noted that its assembling was carried out thanks to cooperation between CITA, technological supplies, and the Alejandro Arias water bomb factory, from the iron and steel industry, which designed the metallic structure.
 
The Adelante website affirms that this kind of windmill can pump up to 8,000 litters of water per day, in ideal conditions.
 
It adds that this is determined by the use of a cylinder of three inches diameter, and 15 and 20 meters tall; by an average wind speed of four meters per second; and by the volume of the well it is located on.
 
The use of wind energy in Cuba is a priority, mostly in places where the wind energy potential is low, with an average speed below 2.5 meters per second, and for places where the phreatic stratum lays nearly more than 20 meters deep.