Group: alt.energy.homepower
From: dold@64.usenet.us.com
Date: Monday, August 27, 2007 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Car alternator wind mill generator?

In MooseFET wrote:
> Take a oil drum and split it along its length.
> Make some sort of verticle shaft that is well supported.

There's a windmill along the west side of Highway 101 in about San Rafael,
California, made up of maybe 20 drum halves circling over the top of a
garage.

It's readily visible from the highway, and it has been spinning for many
years. I don't know if it is generating any power, but I always presumed
so.


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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: ,-