alt.energy.homepower

On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:16:36 -0000, bealiba@ wrote:


>The truth is that if you can't get your head around
>the info then you had best not bother with wind generators.

Nonsense. Most folks who add wind don't get very deep into "info", nor
do they need to. Lots of people spend $500 for Air units or similar,
stick them on all sorts of mounts in all sorts of settings good and
bad, and most are happy with their investment. Even a little wind
energy is a welcome boost to fixed solar because it gets the system
out of that charge-for-a 1/3rd-of-the-time, discharge-for-2/3rds rut.
For example, one neighbor has a pair of Air 403s on short
unguyed-poles in what appeared to be a really crummy location. And yet
they were roaring away when I visited, and he reports that he gets
welcome production from them.

Consider that if you used the time you've spent giving bad advice on
Usenet about wind power, to instead add it to your own setup, then by
now you'd have a better setup *and* perhaps even something worthwhile
to say about the subject. Same with tracking, solar suction, etc.
/~wmbjk/

Wayne