Hi mbouwer,
As I have said, your are welcome to pop down the road, (but you might have to come through Belguim!), for a couple of days and examine and talk about my 3.7m, 12 footers, Hugh Piggott design Wind Turbine farm.
How many do you need to be a farm, three ?.
Hughs design is Simple, and Robust. Yes there are areas for improvement, but considering one of mine is getting on for nearly 10 years of flying, with just one tail jumping, the modifications are pretty minimal.
And where one of mine has failed its normally due to my new fiberglass blades being twice the weight of Cedar blades. Yes I stick to Cedar now, because I have a local source.
Note to 'Damon' with 'Bruce' hiding behind, (what a sight that would be hehe). .... No 2 shed a blade when one delaminated the two halves at the root, a weak point for fiberglass blades. And throws it about 200 meters across the road.
midwoulds pitchcontrol is fascinating and I enjoy reading his posts.
Just about to re-balance my No3 after its modifications and re-launch. James a RE guy from the UK is here helping me around the place for a couple of weeks on a Cultural Exchange, WORKAWAY arrangement. As he was part of a team that built a HP at V3 near Nottingham UK. Its real nice to talk to folk who love there Wind Turbines.
Dead Birds.. In Nearly 10 years, I have only seen one starling at the foot of my No 1, but considering it was being eaten by one of the local cats when I found it, that might not be a fair conclusion of a Turbine strike.
I find Fish at the base of my No 3, In a half eaten state...... I think one of my cats Mr 'Puosoin Rouge' likes the new non moss covered concrete base as eating surface. Very odd staring at the depths of a 100,000 litre pond to see a black and white cat swimming up towards you with a Gold fish in its mouth. !
Sorry rambled of topic.