You mentioned Pcomoke, I spent the last two tears remodeling houses in Princess Anne, Westover, and Crisfield. The house in Crisfield has a nice tower that I can get, somewhere between 60 and 100 feet tall. just need to follow the book a build a 10 footer to start.
I spent a couple weeks in February playing with some solar air heaters made from old sliding glass door panels. Got upto 70 degree temp rise at approx 150 cfm out of 2 panels. Very cheap to build. Will post details when I get system working. Thinking about using air heaters as water heaters aswell, Meaning putting water heating absorbers inside air boxes.
I like the idea of micro hydro also but not much head avaialable when ypour only 12 ft above sea level. Spoke to Queen Anne's county council to see if they would consider a system at the old Wye Mill site, a nice dam already in place. Same thing at Tuckaho State park.
Speaking to my brother who used to work a Calvert Cliffs Nuc plant, I asked how to store excess wind energy that could be used when there was no wind and he had a good answer, pump water. This adds another thing to figure into the whole system. Why not use water pumpimng as a dump load.
The steam and gas show is still an annual event. It will be the second week in July, I think, the same time as the Talbot county fair which where youll find me. Just look for the snowball booth.
Do you have aRE system?
Batdude