Bath University Wind Turbine Build

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/.

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MST Wind Turbine School – Itapeva Brazil

These guys are using my older 2005 design but they are passionate about the project.

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The ‘Turbike’ built in Ireland for 12V battery charging

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Things that don’t work – Mick Sagrillo on the popular idiocies of modern small wind.

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.

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Sustainable energy workshops in East Sutherland

John Whitfield is offering short, commonsense workshops on microgeneration at Culgower in Sutherland.Check out his web page for more.

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Recipe Book now translated into German

„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.

Bestellen Sie jetzt Ihr eigenes Exemplar für     € 20,00
(+ € 2,00 Verpackung und Versand)

Senden Sie eine E-Mail mit Ihrer Anschrift und der gewünschten Stückzahl an:

[email protected]

Der Versand erfolgt innerhalb von 3 Werktagen.

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Windmill obsession in India

Vivek Mundkur has made a video on the windmills he has been making for the last two years.

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Damage to yaw head in Palestine

This is the tower after a 3 metre diameter (ten foot) turbine jumped off in reported 120 km/h winds in Palestine recently.  The 1.5 inch inner pipe of the yaw bearing has clearly bent.  COMET-ME will be using a larger pipe size for their yaw bearings in future.   However this was the standard size that I specify in my Recipe Book.

Windspeed 120 km/h is only 33 m/s, which is not exceptional for us on Scoraig, but there could be other factors at work including turbulence.  A high gyroscopic moment induced by a rapidly yawing rotor could be one.  Anyway this is where this turbine failed and failures are useful lessons.  That’s why I am sharing it on this blog.

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Workshop in Argentina

Esteban van Dam has run a small wind workshop in Buenes Aires, Argentina.

also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gle_wZYuuSw
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3js0Xy62qM

And a few pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/118023745814527581382/AerogeneradorEolocal#
http://picasaweb.google.com/118023745814527581382/AerogeneradorTerminado#

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My name is Marek. I from Poland. This is my wind turbine

Photos here

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