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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Deals with safety aspects, quality assurance, and engineering integrity and specifies requirements for the safety of small wind turbines including design, installation, maintenance and operation under specified external conditions. Provides the appropriate level of protection against damage from hazards from these systems during their planned lifetime…. More >>
IEC 61400-2 Ed. 2.0 b:2006, Wind turbines – Part 2: Design requirements for small wind turbines
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Okay, I was curious as to what profession installs (small) wind turbines and solar energy panels. I’m in carpentry right now and I am very interested in learning of such a thing. Wehn I mention small wind turbines I’m speaking of roof top turbines that generate electricity from kinetic energy.
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