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Economical wind plant?


By mtncbn, Section Newbies
Posted on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 at 09:20:31 AM MST
How can I home build against this price?

I started working with wind 30 years ago, and gave up for my site. Excellent topography, but wind is not great here(North Idaho). I am rekindeled(sp) lately, but am working on high efficiency fossil fuel for winter, tho any wind would cut my fuel. Was considering a home built, but don't see how I can compete with this option.
  1. 2' fiberglass composite blades and hub $160
  2. w pm alternator                       $375
home built rest of the stuff              ???
from magnet4less.com
How can I go wrong?
I have enough major projects going on, and this just seems like good, cheap, wind power.
Course this means I need to get the other 2 legs on 3 legged, self supporting log tripod 100' tower done. Let's see, 5 years to get the first leg up .....
sorry, don't know how to insert or link to this
LINK
Fixed your link. Your software added a bunch of unneeded characters to the file name. TW
Economical wind plant? | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Economical wind plant? (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by asheets on Mon Feb 26th, 2007 at 11:20:49 AM MST
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You need a tower, batteries, and some electrical stuff.  It'll cost you some $$$ even if you are really good at scrounging.
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Alan Sheets



Re: Economical wind plant? (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by etownlax on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 07:28:57 PM MST
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Since DanB doesn't mind the posting of competitors...

Is www.magnet4sale.com  a reputatable site? Have you bought magnets from them(Has anyone else)? They look pretty cheap compared to a lot of other places and I really don't have extra money to spend(I'll still be sure to buy something from forcefield though :-D ). I know that Hugh Piggot's website lists them as a source for magnets. Any thoughts would be great.

-Randy

(DanB if you don't like this post, I won't be offended if you delete it.lol)



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