Jon, The only (known) way to produce anything that is low cost and reliable is to make lots of them. Selling the public on small wind as an agreeable community...
Frank, it would take a huge fan with an airplane prop, (probably combustion engine driven to get enough HP), to generate enough airflow, to give realistic...
To all you bloody old wind freaks: May next year be better than this one! Love * Claus Nybroe Danish Windmiller Stenbankevej 6, 5771 Stenstrup Denmark VAT: DK...
Some people just don't get it... A good way to kill the future of wind generation is to forcibly shove it down the public's throat through federal legislation....
It helps to put the right email address on it. I'll try it again. ... From: Donald A Plisco To: canadianmachinist Cc: awea-wing-home@yahoogroups.com ;...
Don, Thanks - You have good points and they will be passed to engineering. I will pass it on to Enercon as well. Enercon has only about 6500 of their machines ...
Andrew Kruse
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Andy, I'm aware of cantilevered bearing design...I explained it in my letter in lay terms for the general public. Not everyone is a mechanical engineer or CMC...
... SWWP did sell an industrial version with only a rectifier in it, for a brief period. It is not easy to bypass the electronics and keep the brushes...
... I have to admit I find this approach to wind turbine design hilariously funny. Especially the idea that the woods are crawling with spies trying to steal...
Don, Now that was a looooong email. Gosh I wish I was part of one of those multi-billion dollar industries. Unfortunately our tiny 58 people company just...
Andrew Kruse
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Actually the AIR Industrial is still on the market. It is sold primarily to the offshore platform and telecommunication companies. It is sold with the Xantrex...
Andrew Kruse
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Hi, Hope I am not wasting bandwidth with this request but ... I am looking for a good science project to do with my son. I thought something about wind energy...
I hate to pull formulas to show how much power is needed but small fans are out of the question. We have a formula that all use to extract energy from the...
Nando
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Right you are Hugh, Once you understand that Betz' Law is for real you will soon realize that there are only so many things that can be done to extract power...
Greetings to all in the new year: Being more familiar with wood construction, having a greater inventory of woodworking tools than metalworking tools, and...
Hi, I agree on most comments, from all of you. Thanks for your input. However, I believe, there is a better wind turbine to be engineered yet. Or, at least a...
I built a wind tunnel using galvanized sheet metal and steel conduit bent on a mandrel, cut and welded in place. The throat is 30" in diameter and it is about...
I will be kind and generous in saying that it is precisely this kind of reasoned-challenged green radical attitude, that will go over with the general voting...
Just to say, for a wind tunnel, even if the tunnel itself is quasi free of losses (closed circuit, perfect design, smooth surfaces..), if it is intended to...
Hi Terre, Wind Energy is about replacing fossil fuel energy sources because they will destroy the Human habitable Earth. Nothing would be more topical than...
I agree with Donald Plisco that federal mandates like the ones in Germany will not happen in the United States. I think enviromental progress will happen in...
Excellent study done on the comparing Hydrogen and Electric industry. Now if I can get a copy to Arnold........ Carrying the Energy Future, Comparing Hydrogen...
NBC Evening network TV news has a good story on micro wind turbines and solar cells on southwest indian reservation. There are several shots of South West...
John, Wow, that sounds like a labor of love. I believe my old Ford pickup's test bed will suffice me for general observations, if you can afford to feed that...
... I agree completely. Please do not take me as saying there is no more work to do. What I am trying to say is that it is unlikely that some completely new...
A while back we had a brief brainstorming of ideas for ways to get energy out of the wind other than with your typical turbine. (vibrating fences, giant horns,...
Hi. We have moved to a fairly windy area, and the constant whistling of it in our bedroom window (plus the staggering electricity bill) has made me think that...
