What I fail to understand is this;

Why, when you have "....... been beaten several times for using wind speed at ground level as a reference for turbine performance." do you continue to do so?

You even conceed that it is confusing!

Reading your production graph on the economics page makes it even more so.  You say at the top of this page:-

"The data shows that we are near the top of charts on average wind speeds with 13.5mph at 10 meters and 17.5mph at 40 meters.
Breezy 5.5s rotor is working at a height of approximately 61' or just less than 20 meters and we will use an average wind speed of 15mph to calculate the average annual output. We know that at a wind speed of 15mph we are generating 3.6kw (3600watts) of power."

OK I follow that, it makes sense the higher up you go, it's going to get a bit more windy (double ground level speed I have trouble with, but we'll leave that for now).

So why then, does your graph have 3.6kW at 15mph AND yet also "The graph above shows that Breezy 5.5 comes on line when the wind speed is between 6 and 8mph (gnd spd)"

Well, excuse me for having an opinion as a user. They were stated as such and were general statements.

I want the board members to know that your only story posts to this board seem to be to promote this commercial product. Of your 17 comments, 12 are about your product. In my opinion that makes you a freeloading advertiser and not a contributor. Again, my personal opinion. I obviously feel you have a right to defend your product and that is why the posts remain despite my personal opinions on this.

As DanB noted you seem to be less than, shall I say, honest about your economics. This is another part of why I have no desire to see you pimping here. You may be the worlds most altruistic people, with only desire to do good, but you sure don't look like anything but a predatory company preying on the current renewables craze. Again, the personal opinion of a user. I expect to get a good bit of support on this so fire away if you must.

Remember, you came to us, we did not come to you.

I still think purchasing plans is a fools quest. Any plans.

Its your story so I will leave it at that.

Cheers

TomW

I have contended that you are entitled to you opinion, in any capacity.  As for using the board to "pimp" our product your investigation failed to uncover the fact that each time I commented (with one exception) or posted was in our defense of our turbine or grid-tied induction generation.  When I created a new thread it was because by the time I noticed the original there would already have been 80 to 100 folks who had read it that would probably not come back.  Rather than post to a dead thread I would create a new one.  To me it just seemed logical.

About commenting on other things I guess I am prone to keeping my keyboard shut unless it's a topic with which I have some knowledge.  In general though I have found that by the time I read the postings they have been responded to in most cases beyond anything useful that I might add.  

I will concede that I probably have not shared enough with the board with respect to grid-tied induction generation.  I will make and attempt to improve.

Marketing our turbine is an area which I will admit that frankly I am not good at.  The phrase "identify your limitations" could not apply more.  I will be pulling the "economics" pages from the website.   In the end the Breezy design and its performance speaks for itself as those of you that have visited the test site have found.

If you run the numbers you will see where you exceed the Betz limit by a significant margin (over 4X at 8 mph)with this claim, and exceed the average prop performance by a factor of nearly 10X.

I could however believe your claim of performance of 5.5KW at 23 mph, if I could somehow believe the 6 - 8 mph figure.

I guess I have to agree with the folks that that are skeptical here.  If you cant get the basic numbers in the ball park, how is one to believe the rest of the claims.