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| rsegoly 2008-03-03, 1:25 pm |
| Hi
I posted a question before, got a lot of answers, and read many
articles, but the information is contradicting and confusing.
Some sites pretend to sell mini-turbine to mount on someone's roof,
other say such turbine will be sufficient to light one bulb at the
most.
I am from Israel, its tiny country and weather vary.
We are looking into the issue of home turbine, meaning a device
someone can buy and install in his yard or hopefully on his roof in
urban area, we would like to examine the issue regardless of the
weather in specific area.
So the question which is not clear to me yet: Are there any solutions
which are suitable for home? Are there any existing implementations
somewhere in the world?
Best regards,
Roni
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| Ray King 2008-03-03, 1:25 pm |
| Roni,
If you are urban you may look forward to neighbors blaming the wind
generator for causing their TV to flicker. Or you may anticipate the
vibration if not connected correctly to your roof. Otherwise there are no
problems. I am sure you will convert to CFLs instead of standard light bulbs
if not already.
Ray
"rsegoly" <roni.segoly@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8851d142-8451-4b1d-932d-a38214904789@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> I posted a question before, got a lot of answers, and read many
> articles, but the information is contradicting and confusing.
>
> Some sites pretend to sell mini-turbine to mount on someone's roof,
> other say such turbine will be sufficient to light one bulb at the
> most.
>
> I am from Israel, its tiny country and weather vary.
>
> We are looking into the issue of home turbine, meaning a device
> someone can buy and install in his yard or hopefully on his roof in
> urban area, we would like to examine the issue regardless of the
> weather in specific area.
>
> So the question which is not clear to me yet: Are there any solutions
> which are suitable for home? Are there any existing implementations
> somewhere in the world?
>
> Best regards,
> Roni
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"rsegoly" <roni.segoly@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8851d142-8451-4b1d-932d-a38214904789@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> I posted a question before, got a lot of answers, and read many
> articles, but the information is contradicting and confusing.
>
> Some sites pretend to sell mini-turbine to mount on someone's roof,
> other say such turbine will be sufficient to light one bulb at the
> most.
>
> I am from Israel, its tiny country and weather vary.
>
> We are looking into the issue of home turbine, meaning a device
> someone can buy and install in his yard or hopefully on his roof in
> urban area, we would like to examine the issue regardless of the
> weather in specific area.
>
> So the question which is not clear to me yet: Are there any solutions
> which are suitable for home? Are there any existing implementations
> somewhere in the world?
>
> Best regards,
> Roni
http://www.flightsimulatorandhobbies.com/
Select 'wind generator' from main page.
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| Anthony Matonak 2008-03-03, 1:25 pm |
| rsegoly wrote:
> I posted a question before, got a lot of answers, and read many
> articles, but the information is contradicting and confusing.
The information is contradicting because you are getting answers
from around the world. Wind turbines need wind to work. Different
places around the world have different amounts of wind so they
will tell you different things based on their own experience.
You need to find out how much wind you have. This will tell you if
a wind turbine will work for you.
Good indications that you have enough wind is if tree branches
all point in one direction (flagging), if the wind makes a howling
sound when it blows or if people constantly complain about the wind.
You may be able to find a published report on wind resources
similar to these...
http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/maps.html
> We are looking into the issue of home turbine, meaning a device
> someone can buy and install in his yard or hopefully on his roof in
> urban area, we would like to examine the issue regardless of the
> weather in specific area.
>
> So the question which is not clear to me yet: Are there any solutions
> which are suitable for home? Are there any existing implementations
> somewhere in the world?
Yes, there are solutions you can simply buy and put up in your yard.
Some places sell complete kits with everything you need.
It looks like skystream is the most heavily advertised grid-tied
wind turbine here in the United States.
http://www.skystreamenergy.com/skystream/
Anthony
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| bealiba@gmail.com 2008-03-03, 5:25 pm |
| On Mar 4, 3:27 am, rsegoly <roni.seg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I posted a question before, got a lot of answers, and read many
> articles, but the information is contradicting and confusing.
>
> Some sites pretend to sell mini-turbine to mount on someone's roof,
> other say such turbine will be sufficient to light one bulb at the
> most.
>
> I am from Israel, its tiny country and weather vary.
>
> We are looking into the issue of home turbine, meaning a device
> someone can buy and install in his yard or hopefully on his roof in
> urban area, we would like to examine the issue regardless of the
> weather in specific area.
>
> So the question which is not clear to me yet: Are there any solutions
> which are suitable for home? Are there any existing implementations
> somewhere in the world?
>
> Best regards,
> Roni
Some information you should be aware of for wind installations.
http://s78.photobucket.com/albums/j103/GGhio/
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| rsegoly 2008-03-04, 9:25 am |
| Thanks
I am going to approach Skystream and see what they can offer
On Mar 3, 8:29 pm, Anthony Matonak
<anthony...@nothing.like.socal.rr.com> wrote:
> rsegoly wrote:
>
> The information is contradicting because you are getting answers
> from around the world. Wind turbines need wind to work. Different
> places around the world have different amounts of wind so they
> will tell you different things based on their own experience.
>
> You need to find out how much wind you have. This will tell you if
> a wind turbine will work for you.
>
> Good indications that you have enough wind is if tree branches
> all point in one direction (flagging), if the wind makes a howling
> sound when it blows or if people constantly complain about the wind.
>
> You may be able to find a published report on wind resources
> similar to these...http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/maps.html
>
>
>
> Yes, there are solutions you can simply buy and put up in your yard.
> Some places sell complete kits with everything you need.
>
> It looks like skystream is the most heavily advertised grid-tied
> wind turbine here in the United States.http://www.skystreamenergy.com/skystream/
>
> Anthony
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