Author Archives: hugh

Jimmy showed me a link and it lead to another link, and before long I found myself looking at the same old stuff again. Earth4energy and the rest of that stuff! Oh no.Expletives evade my tired brain. We live in … Continue reading →

I did a survey recently: What do you think of the new navigation column on my site? Only ten people responded out of the many thousands that visited my site over those few days so I did not learn very … Continue reading →

I am sorry the order is a bit random. Many thanks to Pedro Bernardo for the nice photos. 2400 diameter blades, 12 magnets in each steel disk, the magnets are N40 50 mm x 25 mm x 10 mm. 12-volt … Continue reading →

The Otherpower discussion board is a great place to chew over the reasons why sh*t happens. Building your own wind turbine often does not end at the point where you erect it. You could say that is the end of … Continue reading →

Here’s a link to a similar project with a lot of information and some links of its own.

Vivek is in the news again with a project based on one of my alternators. Quite a few people use them like this to charge batteries with human power, but I do have to wonder where the hours come from … Continue reading →

As part of my tidy-up drive I have made a navigation frame version of the site that you can access from this link. It needs a bit more work but it’s useful enough already to be worth making it available … Continue reading →

The Carbon trust have moved the link for their windspeed estimator tool to here This tool is streets ahead of the old NOABL windspeed estimator that was never intended to be used without great care (due to its lack of … Continue reading →

From: BWEA Alex Murley [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: 09 December 2009 17:45Subject: BWEA / EST agree to share field trial data Good afternoon, BWEA has entered into agreement with EST to advise on the release of EST small wind field trial data. Any … Continue reading →