viable wind

[Mr Gus]

Dan's quote needs sticking in a jpeg gold frame & cited over in plain but underlined typeface to get the point over on any "normal property" home wind turbine.

& maybe some for crowdfunder adverts too.

[billi]

Like you've been saying for years 'PV is king'

Hey Paul , that was an accident not arrogance ..... at the time , but sure those sheets seem to be ruling now

I guess i have to tell all those small wind farmers to save their cash and miss-believe .....

[Mr Gus]

NO, billi,

Ask them to save their cash (having cross referenced ripple) & invest in a euro-wide "ripple" scheme ..many of us are backyard wind power dreamers, we just got educated from example after example after example of hot air blowing nothing but false promises regarding the low slung, small back garden on a building estate examples.

[Joeboy]

As we are a community and communicate , it might be a coincidence that recently people on a german wind turbine forum ask me about self sufficiency and i cannot provide any advice on a windturbine i could suggest ..... in former times it would have been future energy .....

Can we make a list of turbines that are viable for single house ideas ?
Are there those ?

For most of the population our WT cooperative is the answer... Not perfect (grid charges etc) but it's the only way for people with "ordinary" houses.
Would the German psyche/brainset or the financial system allow it though?
S

Nail & head. Its absolutely the simplest way into WT and its only just beginning...In my time in Germany I found the people to be very community spirited and I think a WT co-op would dare i say it 'fly' well there.

[Gareth J]

When we put ours up, the choice was between a proven and an evance. The neighbour chose Proven we chose Evance. I've never asked about his performance figures but despite being 2minutes walk apart the site is quite different anyoso not really comparable. We've both had spells of downtime earlier on (maybe the proven slightly moreso) but now both seem reliable and we both maintain them ourselves.

I prefer the forward facing and more elegant Evance personally. But there's more to go wrong with the more refined blade pitching system.

If the projected high electric prices are maintained, it'd make a turbine in a decent spot viable now I reckon - if planning were a possibility.

I call our site ok; wind maps suggest an average annual speed of 6m/s but the machine figures suggest it's between 5 and 6.

[ALAN/ALAN D]

If you have got the space.
Forget Chinese ones. Even the Mo Cows worked out what part of the fields its best to keep away from.
My 6 K.W. One lost the blades when the cast iron hub fractured. After telling them that cast Iron was not a suitable material for that application.
They sent a welded mild steel hub and new blades. The new blades came off six months later. All the internal rotation gear box drive system failed within six months. The control system went to recycle with out being fitted. Its still running 15+ years later.