I do not want to connect to household power, only heating in winter (and maybe cooling in summer). We pay too much on heating due to my wife's temperature needs. What I think is that I would like to make a very simple machine with minimum part number kept in mind in order to make it paying back quickly. I can make the VAWT seen in the video from around 30 parts (including washers for nuts). No need for battery, no need for inverter, only a simple (and cheap) water heater to be added to the heating system.
Anyway, what do you think why this kind of turbine system have not come up to light more intensly? Does it have some inherent problem with it? [ Parent ]
Yes, it doesn't work .....
Ron Adventure is just bad planning." -- Roald Amundsen [ Parent ]
it's just an opinion but i think big verticals are just now coming into there own. of course in the right location, you can get a much bigger return from your investment from a horizontal prop type devise.
just the swept area required is daunting to most builders. if you want to build to the scale you have described you will need to structurally alter your house . not everyone is willing or able to do that.
lets say your house is 1,000 sq.ft. perhaps 31 ft. per side . if you had a flat roof and could build a mill ten ft high it would sweep 310 sq ft. that's a nice number! but your not going to convince anyone it's a "colonial,spanish or Victorian style" that's ok too, it is the twenty-first century.[ Parent ]
