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answering another email today… Hi Ruth, I have just come across your website (whilst looking for a feeder for bees, of all things!) and have not yet had time to check out all the links, so I apologise if my … Continue reading →

Try putting your own name into Google some time. I have just found a site called http://hughpiggott.com/ . It started with Amazon adverts for windpower books (I didn’t see them at first because of my adblocking program) but then lead … Continue reading →

The wind widget on my front page was given me free by Logic Energy. It is fed with data from my house by a device called the LeNet. (I can access the data and make lots of interesting charts and … Continue reading →

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 →