alt.energy.homepower

> | After reading the thread about the windmill in some foreign land I
> | got to wondering.
> |
> | How would you build the cheapest and/or easiest to get up and
> | running windmill?
> |
> | Let's try not to get bogged down in how efficient the system is.
> | IOW, even if we only get 1% of the energy from the wind out of the
> | system let's say that's enough.
> |
> | I'm thinking more of how you would work the breaking, gearing, and
> | the like.
>
> Cheapest and easiest would be direct drive with no breakage.

Maybe I should also have put something about it being able to keep a battery
charged w/o damaging anything.