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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 →

Here is their web site with photos of the new windmill at their place

Now for some content: I get a lot of nice photos by email.Here are some photos I got from Michael Jones. Interesting hybrid designs.

This is part of a belated and half-hearted attempt to bring order to the chaos of my web pages. My web page has been going for over ten years now, building up organically and I do plan a bit of … Continue reading →