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Seed catalogues are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than the web and playboy combined . (after Michael Perry)
Personally I am not too interested in wind turbines, they seem to spend a lot of time doing nothing, however a friend of mine in Sweden is looking at the idea of a ridge roof wind generator which apparently is the most efficient means of capturing wind energy in a domestic environment.
Maybe another idea.
I have reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me...
I looked at ridge mounted turbines in the first instance and found that because we are surrounded by trees we could not be guaranteed a suitable wind flow, the same problem arose when we looked at roof mounted pv panels.
Joanna, vertical axis turbines are apparently more efficient because they are not affected by turbulence, but I have been unable to find a company that will install them, they are not as yet "commercially viable" I think that means they haven't found a way of justifying a massive profit from them.
The problem with the big turbines you see on the hills, is that the electric companies are always switching them off at times of low demand, which is of course the time that you tend to see them, I suppose it is easier to stop a turbine from turning than it is to stop a nuclear power station from producing.
Keith
I thought the vertical ones were more efficient than others from my research. I think they are also more easily made - hence no big profits from them. I was really shocked to hear that wind turbines were going to cost huge sums of money to install but the companies will help to access funding - a scam if ever I heard one.
Hopefully some folks will wake up to the fact and start producing the vertical ones at affordable prices, or at least publish some good diagrams so folks can make them for themselves.
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