The VAWT group deleted my posts because the site admin and his cohorts, didn't like the fact that I responded to there rudeness courteously and clearly, when I explained my position reasonably and completely refuted all their accusations.
It should be known that the site admin had sent me private messages asking to license my turbine design to him for his local area (southwest states). He told me in his private messages that he had created the VAWT site to scout for a VAWT opportunity. I responded asking him more about himself, at which point he became very hostile, so I told him no hard feelings, but it didn't seem like a good match.
(edit, I stand corrected by TomW, who explains below that he has nothing to do with the moderation at VAWT's site that deleted my posts, my apologies for associating you with it Tom)
After that he started posting negative comments. He told me that I was "required" to post results, and so I looked up his forum "guidelines" and pointed out his new "requirement", contradicted his posts in his guidelines. I asked him why he was "requiring" me to post results, when he hadn't required anyone else in the forum, and I pointed out it's and bits as a bully to whom I wouldn't bother responding to anymore. The site admin then deleted all my posts, and closed my account.
As for the bullying, I never accused the site owner of bullying, I pointed out that It's and bits, who had called me a liar previously, seemed incapable of civil discourse. I showed where It's and claimed in the forum that I had not allowed him to post comments on any of my youtube videos. I posting a link to my youtube video, showing where I had allowed it's and bits acidic comment, weeks earlier, and only hours after he had posted it, and showing my thorough reply to it's and bits, proving that the pot was calling the kettle black, and doing with nasty unnecessary language.
All's well that ends well, it's no skin off my back to be booted from a forum that isn't interested. As I have said many times, I'll release my results when I am ready, not before. And if people don't like that, they are free to ban me, ignore me, or attempt to show me why they should see results before a public release. Attempts to pressure me, like it's and bits nastiness, or TomW are a waste of electrons.
My day was great, the VAWT guys only booted me because they couldn't take the heat, unlike them, I don't mind standing up for myself. They are the ones who decided that they would remove the whole discussion. It's clear enough that they only deleted my comments because they were uncomfortable with what they came out looking like in the discussion. If they disagree, I'd be happy to see them re post the whole thread, I bet they won't (unless they decided to do some some substantial editing) because it would reflect poorly on themselves. That said, I wont' be responding to rude demands.
I will say, that I am holding myself to a commercial standard for my results. For my project when I release data I'm going to be showing what my instrumentation is, where it's located, and why I am confident it's readings are accurate, and exactly what my methodology is. I am going over all that right now with reviewing engineers, and still I imagine it will be a month or more before I am ready to release a report. It looks like I may redo a whole round of testing because I want to be sure that my methodology is best practice, and not simply "good enough". I understand that the best most people are able to do is hook up a relatively unknown efficiency home-built alt to their rotors, and use that to judge rotor efficiency. It's not how I do things though, because from my understanding, using hand held multimeters reading alts of unknown efficiency isn't as accurate as I aim to be (most handheld multimeter are reading RMS volts, with algorithms designed for 60 htz standard line voltage, they are not meant to read wild AC, or rapidly fluctuating DC so can induce large errors). My desire to release hard results this way is in part due to the fact that there has been soo much smoke and snake oil in the VAWT market already.
At this time anybody with a tiny bit of know how can look at my video's and make whatever judgements they want, it's very simple to prove with simple online video tools how fast the turbine is going, and how fast the van is going. I'd recommend the Vernier video tool for anyone who has an iOS device. Anyway, I am well aware that this forum is oriented toward high level home builders, (whom I admire and respect greatly), and that this post, talking about how I hope to take my project commercial, is outside it's normal purview. I hope that doesn't get me banned. I do feel that I should be allowed to respond to these baseless and rude accusations, by it's and bits and others, so I do hope that even if I get banned here now for this post, that my posts remain intact and that these guys won't be able to bury this response in more crude comments. I think my comments stand for themselves, and I think people will be able to make informed judgments about the quality of it's and bits and his cohort by reading their comments. What I see is becoming common in our society is that people who don't have good arguments often tend to substitute loud and rude voices, (look at political mess these days) however their own noise makes them easy to spot. I would also point out that I haven't offered to sell anyone anything, here, or in any other forum, or ask for investment here or in any other forum. The reality for me is that I am seeking Venture Capital funding, not funding from individuals. Before I do sell anything, I will show real third party review of my testing, done to a solid high standard, in my mind until then I'm more home builder than commercial operation. I'll let others decide for themselves.
I also apologize in advance, I don't have as much time to write considerate responses to questions and comments as I would like, please don't mistake delays for reticence, I'm happy to engage in civil dialog, and don't need others to agree with me to be polite. People who choose not to be civil can expect to be ignored, as they should be.
Best Wishes
Drew
