I am back after 3 weeks of vacation during which I attended a conference on sustainable energy development. I will soon report on a talk I attended about small...
Hi Gaylord, Thanks for the good news that my article in Home Power Magazine has been published. I was disappointed by one aspect of the publication process,...
Dear Paul, Thanks for your historical information! I am working with Roy Butler, an installer of small wind turbines in NY, and NYSERDA (New York State Energy...
Well this is a complex problem that I have begun to address at www.ualberta.ca\~mtyree\SWIEP\Publications.html. I have compiled a total of 21 examples into one...
Mel, I'm interested to know if you or others have had experience with siting procedures for individual turbines on residential property. Specifically issues...
Hey Mel: Thanks for putting this together! Great site, I must say--very interesting. This report drove me to reexamine my own numbers that are (predicted) for...
Dear Kevin, It is great to see that someone in Washington is looking into regulatory issues. For what it is worth, I can provide so far only my personal...
Hi I just got my hands on a slide show for a presentation given by Mike Bergey and I got interested in slide (#16) in which Mike Bergey talks about one of his...
Fascinating article on multi-rotor technology. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-05/ten-times-turbine Yes, Doug has been writing to me about this new...
Michael, Although you protest that you don't have time for these issues you always write such detailed and informative replies. Thanks so much! Actually I have...
I've been reading Doug Selsam's messages on the awea-wind-home yahoogroup for years. I've never seen any hard information on relative cost and reliability...
Hi folks, I have fulfilled a promise to myself to do a `scientific' study of the performance of my Geothermal Heat Pump (GHP) which provides heat, A/C, and...
Hi all, About 3 weeks ago, I attend a conference on sustainable energy in Canton,NY, where I gave a talk about my net-zero energy house and listened to lots of...
Terry, Thanks for your questions. This gives me an excuse to say something in SWIEP about using geothermal heat pumps to heat off-grid houses. My home has...
Terry, The compressor start ups would be the easy part. The GHP compressor would be quite small in the theoretical house I have in mind. And the startup power...
Terry, Yes, I spent a lot of time looking into induction cooking when I build my N-ZE house but decided they were too expensive. I dug up data on energy saving...
Terry, Thanks, I will check out the axial flux turbine community with the idea of featuring it on SWIEP provided I can get some hard data. --Mel Prof. Mel...
You can see the build of our axial flux wind turbine at http://www.green-trust.org/photoalbum/Wind%20Class/index.html It's a bolt up design, not a weld up....
Steve, Pretty impressive: 3.5 kWh/day on a nominal 1 kW home built unit! A few questions: (1) Over what calendar dates was the daily production measured? (2)...
Hi all, Have you ever wondered why the wind power equations states that power is proportional to the wind velocity CUBED whereas kinetic energy is to the...
Hey Mel: Just wanted to mention that I read your article last night in Home Power Magazine--very slick! Our systems will be much alike, I think, when it's all...
Hi Michael & Edward, Michael Klemen wrote a long and kind message to me explaining why production of some small wind turbines can be much less than predicted. ...
PS- Michael Klemen's original message to me was awea # 23754 or SWIEP #60. Sorry I forgot to post that info. Prof. Mel Tyree Professor, Chair in Tree...
I will be on the road for 4 days and may be be available to moderate comments. When we get big enough I will appoint an alternate moderator for times when I...
http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2008/5/25/22230/7133 by Dave B. Comment by Moderator: This appears to be a response to a request for info I submitted a few...
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