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Small and Household-size Wind Turbines
- Fantasy Wind Turbines (Read this first.)
- An Open Letter to Inventors by Mick Sagrillo: Specifically to inventors of vertical axis wind turbines and rooftop wind 'technology breakthroughs'
- Energy Ball--A Review--I've been putting off writing anything about the "Energy Ball" simply because there are too many of these "inventions" for one person to track, analyze, and report on. Like many of these contraptions, and that's the best I can say about such devices, it's a distraction from more serious endeavors.
- Stirring Up a Hornet's Nest: New Turbine Generates Controversy
- US Wind Turbine--Heavy on the Hype
- Earthtronic's Honeywell Windtronics WT 6500--A Review--Lest the Honeywell name lend some kind of legitimacy to the WT 6500 note that the Honeywell trademark is simply used under license. Tellingly, "Honeywell International Inc. makes no representation or warranties with respect to this product."
- Britain's Energy Savings Trust Finds Small Wind Turbines Perform Poorly in Tests--The field trials monitored 57 small turbines for an entire year, the world's largest effort at monitoring machines of this size say the reports authors. . .
- Warwick Wind Trials Gives Failing Grade to Rooftop Wind--If further proof is needed that mounting wind turbines on rooftops is a bad idea, the final report on the Warwick Wind Trials is it.
- New US Rooftop Wind Turbine Lab (Boston): The Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Science, is installing a rooftop Wind Turbine Lab in the summer of 2009.
- Wind Turbines at the Boston Museum of Science: Production Data & Observations by Ben Polito on Proven, Southwest Windpower Skystream, Mariah Windspire & Cascade Engineering Swift wind turbines atop the Boston Museum of Science. . .
- Wind turbines at Boston's Museum of Science by Ben Polito--It was interesting to compare the behavior of the various turbines. . .
- The Folly of Building-Integrated Wind by Alex Wilson, BuildingGreen.com--A thorough analysis of the concept by an experienced renewable energy journalist.
- Aerovironment's AVX 1000 Rooftop Turbines at Logan Airport
- Building Integrated Wind
- Urban Turbines: What Are They and What Makes Sense
- Urban Wind Field Trials in Great Britain
- Small-scale Wind Energy
Policy insights and practical guidance by Britain's Carbon Trust (pdf, 1.66mb)
- Small-scale Wind Energy
Technical Report by Britain's Carbon Trust (pdf, 5.72mb)
- Rooftop Wind Turbines at Montreal's Biosphere
- Unsubstantiated Claims of Rooftop Wind Turbines (An Open Letter by Hugh Piggott)
- Roof Top Wind in Inaction
- Robert Dreeszen's Roof Mounted Wind Turbines
- Roof Top Windsave in Scotland
- Roof Top Over the Top in Britain
- Stewart Russell's commentary on Windsave.--Stewart knows what he's talking about. He's a pro.
- Swift Turbine Specs Look Dubious by Stewart Russell
- Andy Mahoney's Rooftop Mounting Failure
- Wind Speed Measurement over a roof top in Edinburgh, Scotland by Hugh Piggott
- The case (or not) for Roof Mounted Wind Turbines by Nick Martin
- Rooftop Mounting of Wind Turbines
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The early days. Paul Gipe sitting on a crate of wind turbines after returning from a salvage operation to Montana in the mid-1970s. |
For testing of small wind turbines and for all around helpfulness on the subject of wind energy no one beats the Alternative Energy Institute at West Texas A&M University. The Folkecenter for Renewable Energy is a long-standing reference source on the success of Electricity Feed Laws and Community Wind development in Europe. The Midwestern Renewable Energy Association has long been an ardent proponent of renewables, not just wind energy, in Wisconsin.
Alternative Energy Institute
www.windenergy.org
Nordvestjysk Folkecenter for Vedvarende Energi (Folkecenter for Renewable Energy)
www.folkecenter.dk
Midwest Renewable Energy Association
www.the-mrea.org/
For tips on the design of small wind turbines visit the sites of Scoraig Wind Electric's Hugh Piggott, www.scoraigwind.co.uk, and Windmission's Claus Nybroe, www.windmission.dk.
If you need parts, service, or advice on how to maintain your small wind turbine, you can subscribe to the yahoogroup small-wind-home. There are several knowledgeable participants on this list who offer a wealth of technical information. Once you've subscribed, monitor the list, then, when you're ready, post your question.
There is also a discussion group on small wind turbines (petit eoliens) in French at http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/petit-eolien/.
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