Germany has a program (“A Million Points of Light”) to install wind turbines in homes. Finland has small vertical axis wind turbines going up in cottages, on chimneys.
Which is the best design for a home-power installation? What are the efficiencies of the different blade designs?
Anybody know anything about the ‘bent-prop’ design, like this one?
http://wind-farm.blogspot.com/
Does the chimney need to be reinforced?
How high does the wind turbine have to be, over the tallest house in the neighborhood?
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Taking a motor from an old exercise treadmill and some PVC pipe, John Park constructs a wind-powered generator. The electrical power may not be enough to get your home off the grid, but the great …
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Try to help small village home with their drought, electricity, farming, small industry, pump and water problems. They got plenty of wind and sunshine but rather dispense with fuel operational cost. Perhaps wind generator and solar panel generator could be the solutions. Besides being a good standby reliable no cost operation it also help prevent greehouse emission. Looking for a reliable products and supplier both for sosial and commercial purpose. Appreciate any website you could introduce me to. Thank you.
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I want to make a wind power generator to power things in my house. I want it to be able to power a small tv and DVD player.
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