Hi,
But MotorWind does fill a gap in the market if a few Watts here and there (lets say a few tens of Watt-hours per day) is all that is needed, such as for lighting.
For example, my home study has been solar-PV-only since July, but that gets horribly expensive in PV in mid-winter (or I will have to revert to mains power a lot), but a few wind Watts per hour on average most of mid-winter would cover my lighting needs when solar doesn't.
The guy who's designed this has as his primary target rural villages in the undeveloped world. A little cheap solar and a cheap little wind of this sort of size is plenty. A ten-hut village might benefit from light to study by in the evenings, or in the street, or even the power for the fabled $100 laptop, and they do not need an expensive 1kW turbine that needs high winds to generate anything at all.
A side benefit is that the low-speed low-cost system he has designed should be suitable for urban windspeeds too. Those of us whose zoning/planning laws would otherwise prohibit any other wind power can gather some RE this way for low-power loads, such as lighting.
Listen to his radio interview, I thought he came across as pretty sane amongst the driven entrepreneurs that I have experience of. He may not be right or even rich (I don't know), but his motives and technology are sound at first blush.
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/Radio/Free_Energy_Now/recordings/2007/070505_MotorWind_LucienG
ambarota.mp3
Try not to gag on the intro! B^>
Rgds
Damon