A bicycle wheel is fastened to a vertical wood post. Neodymium magnets are bolted to the rim of the wheel. Tape is placed between the spokes to create the “windmill vanes”. As the magnets pass a coil of copper wire, a current is induced in the coil.
see video here
This conference took place on 7-11th February, in Dakar Polytechnic.
Partners (see web links at end of this post)
CIFRES, research center
attached to the Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar
Tripalium, French small wind homebuilder’s association
blueEnergy, NGO based in Nicaragua
Schneider Electric, new owner of Xantrex
You can find commentaries on this conference at these links:
35 years of small wind manufacture
Over 1000 small wind turbines have been built using the Piggott model.
International participation at the conference
Scoraig Wind Electric (UK)
EolSénégal (Sénégal)
blueEnergy (Nicaragua)
Tripalium (France)
Solar‐Mad (Madagascar)
I love wind power (Mali & Tanzanie)
COMET‐ME (Palestine)
AJA Mali (Mali)
The Clean Energy Initiative (Mozambique)
Otherpower (USA)
Renewable World (UK)
Schneider Electrique (France)
AEETEC (France)
Appropriate technology
Locally built turbines and tools for the development of
sustainable local manufacture, maintenance, and reliable
energy production.
Site visit
Visit to one of the seven Eolsenegal installations. A pumping
system for a vegetable farmer.
World Social Forum Conference
Round table on intergating small wind turbines for rural electrification
with Hugh Piggott (Scoraig Wind Electric), Jo Kelly (Renewable World),
Souleymane Sarr (AJA Mali), Lionel Gaultier (SolarMad), Fadel Kébé
(EolSénégal) and Noam Dotan (COMET‐ME)
CIFRES, Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar
• 18 third year university students working on small wind projects
• 5 graduate students working on masters thesises on modeling the Piggott alternator, designing a charge controller, modeling hybrid wind/pv systems, etc.
• Mechanical engineering departement working on tools for the manufacture of windings, blades, nacelles, and towers.
• Creation of a company Eolsenegal for the manufacture and installation of small wind turbines in Senegal
Formation of an International Association ‘Wind Empowerment’
Technology Workgroups
•Research & Development
•Monitoring Systems
•Tower and Foundations
•Balance of Systems
•Manufacturing Tools
•Training tools
•Certification & Testing
•IT Solutions
Social Economic Workgroups
•Social Mapping
•Financing
•Ownership models
•Business models
More Information:
| . | ÉolSénégal | Sénégal | http://eolsenegal.com/ | |||
| . | blueEnergy | US, France, Nicaragua | http://www.blueenergygroup.org | |||
| . | Ti’éole | France | http://www.tieole.com/index.cfm?pageid=10 | |||
| . | Scoraig Wind Electric | Scotland | http://www.scoraigwind.com/ | |||
| . | Otherpower | US | http://www.otherpower.com/ | |||
| . | Solarmad | Madagascar | http://www.solarmad.biz/ | |||
| . | AJA Mali | Mali | http://www.ajamali.org/ | |||
| . | Comet Me | Joint Initiative Israel/Palestine | http://www.comet-me.org/index.html | |||
| . | The Clean Energy Company | Mozambique | http://www.tcei.info/ | |||
| . | ilovewindpower Mali | Mali | http://www.i-love-windpower.com/mali.html | |||
| . | ilovewindpower Tanzania | Tanzania | http://www.i-love-windpower.com/cms/ | |||
| . | Participated in Dakarremotely | |||||
| . | Volunteer WindAid | Peru | http://windaid.org/ | |||
| . | Green Empowerment | US, Peru, Phillipines | http://www.greenempowerment.org | |||
| . | HIDRORED | South America | ||||
| . | Other organizations of interest | |||||
| . | Green Step Cameroun | Cameroon | http://www.green-step.org/ | |||
| . | CraftSkills | Kenya | http://craftskillseastafrica.com/ |
| . | WindAid | Peru | http://windaid.com/ | |||
| . | TaTEDO | Tanzania | http://www.tatedo.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74:wind-electricity&catid=5:news |
Lundi 4 au vendredi 8 avril 2011
Stage hébergé et avec la participation de Périple en la Demeure à Limerlé, Belgique
TRIPALIUM
est une association qui a pour but de diffuser les moyens et les savoirs faire techniques nécessaires à l’auto construction d’éolien individuel, construire des turbines en répondant à un besoin d’électricité identifié, donner des notions théoriques de base associées au fonctionnement d’une éolienne.
Société TI’EOLE
fournit les systèmes complets pour le raccordement au réseau électrique ou pour les sites isolés pour votre maison, votre société ou votre projet autonome. Pour soutenir la communauté d’auto-construction, Ti’éole organise des formations, distribue les matériaux et la documentation nécessaire à la réalisation d’une éolienne.
Engineers Without Borders at Bath University are doing a workshop with V3 and publishing a blog about it here
Ben Lane writes:
I am currently a masters student at the University of Bath and we are currently in the middle of building a 1kW wind turbine, with aid from a company called V3 Power, and inspired by yourself! I can provide you more details, but in summary this project offers the students of Bath an incredible opportunity to put theory into practise. This is something reinforced by the huge popularity for the project at Bath, with over 130 applicants. Here at Bath we are taking previous the project further and using the turbine to not only spread awareness on campus, but as a hub for further research projects, and we have currently integrated PhD research into Super Capacitor storage with the turbine. Furthermore this project offers a lot more than just research and has the potential to make a real difference in places where electricity is most needed – this project will give the students of Bath the opportunity to gain vital skills in low tech micro-generation, equipping them with the necessary skills to take this project to a developing country.
We have also set up a blog to share the build with as many people as possible and it would be amazing if we could somehow get a link from your blog to ours? http://bathwindturbine.tumblr.com/.
These guys are using my older 2005 design but they are passionate about the project.
This presentation by Mick Sagrillo is from 2009. It’s a good summary of what is wrong with rooftop wind and is backed up by actual production data. If you are enthusiastic about rooftop windpower then you ought to look at this presentation and then decide whether its such a great idea.
John Whitfield is offering short, commonsense workshops on microgeneration at Culgower in Sutherland.
Check out his web page for more.
„Drei Flügel im Wind –
Eine Selbstbauanleitung für Kleinwindturbinen“
Herausgeber: GREEN STEP e.V. , Wolfratshausen
Gewinn fließt in erneuerbare Energie Entwicklungsprojekte in Kamerun
Sie wollten schon immer mal eine Windturbine bauen? Ihr Zögling plagt Sie mit Fragen, wie das mit der Windkraft denn so genau geht? Die können Sie im nun ganz einfach beantworten – mit der Selbstbauanleitung für Kleinwindturbinen „Drei Flügel im Wind“ von GREEN STEP e.V. Mit dieser Anleitung können Sie mit einfachsten Materialien aus dem Baumarkt eine einfache funktionierende Windkraftanlage zur Stromversorgung bauen. Und wer weiß, vielleicht wird Ihr Zögling ja damit dann so berühmt wie William Kwamkamba – „Der Junge der den Wind einfing“ – er baute in Afrika eine Windturbine um das Haus seiner Eltern mit Strom zu versorgen.
Der Gewinn aus dem Verkauf des vorliegenden Werkes kommt den Projekten in Kamerun zu Gute. Das nächste große Projekt des Vereins in Kamerun ist der Bau einer erneuerbaren Energieschule in der junge Menschen im Bau von Kleinstwind- und Wasserkraftanlagen, verbesserten Kochern, Solartrocknern und Regenwasserzisternen und vielem mehr ausgebildet werden.
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