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Urban wind power | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial)
Re: Urban wind power (4.00 / 1) (#13)
by Flux on Sat Dec 17th, 2005 at 04:41:43 AM MST
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The whole thing seems to be a scam to please the "seen to be green brigade"

The machine seems to be sound and if the inverter is cheap enough it could be a winner. Properly installed on a decent site it would be a good idea.

The idea that it can be used anywhere in an urban environment is just a scam. It will never pay for itself ( what is the price?) or save anyone anything except a guilty consience.

See Paul Gipes views of urban wind power on his Windworks site.

There is no price and no figures from Windsave . It would be better if they concentrated on areas where it could work and also sold the inverter with suitable approval for some of us to use it to tie better machines to the grid.

The economics seems based on some energy grant that they don't yet have in the UK.
I can't imagine them having the same thing in the US.

If they concentrated on solar for urban areas and left wind power to sites with wind then I might hold them in higher regard.

Flux

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