Small wind has a bright future...(deep sigh).. and always will.
The laws of physics will always get in the way of small wind. It has nothing to do with a entirely new rotor design or super powerful magnets, etc. It's like talking about making a solar panel work better at night. Even if you do have a solar panel that is 50% more efficient at night the math still results in zero more power.
To try to help folks understand this I compare wind to solar. Anyone with PV already knows there's no solar energy available after sunset and pretty much zero energy available on rainy days.
Wind Power vs Solar
10 mph or less is
night and there's no usable energy there to collect.
10 to 15 mph is a
rainy day. There's just enough there to make your charge controller/inverter turn of and on every few seconds trying wake up.
16 to 18 mph is the 30 minutes after sunrise and before sunset where you system is running at 5% or less of rated output
19 mph to 25 mph are the incremental hours leading to solar noon where your solar finally hits it rated output
Over 25 mph is that aggravating fault that randomly shows up and shuts down your system.
With solar 95% (my best guess) of the population of the world gets a full day of sun at least 300 days per year.
With wind 95% (again, my best guess) of the world's population has an average wind speed of something substantially less than 15 mph and only sees 16+ mph well less than 200 hours per year. Don't forget it's completely random and unpredictable.