Dear Friends
After recent longer stays in S. Asia and in the Persian Gulf with RE projects - I note that still many new friends and colleagues - in their search for information often forget to adequately search the archives for relevant suggestions & possible inspiration.
On several occasions - I have previously indicated certain suitable suggested titles of relevant hands-on litterature - mainly in English. I will however kindly request the board if they will allow me to once-again repeat a list of some of these titles for the benefit of all.
A: Wind - Hands-on & background texts
1: "The Wind Power Book" - Jack Park - Cheshire Books, Palo Alto, Ca. USA 1981
ISBN: - 0-917352-06-08
2: "Wind Power for Farms, Homes & Small Industry" - Jack Park - US Deptment of
Energy/NTIS - RFP-2841/1270/78/4 - USA Sept. 1978
3: "The Home-built, Wind-Generated Electricity Handbook" - Michael A. Hackleman -
Peace Press/Earthmind, Cal. USA 1975 - ISBN: 0-915238-05-5
4: "The Homemade Windmills of Nebraska" - Erwin Hinckley Bardour - Nebraska USA
1899 - Reprinted Fallones Institute Ca. USA 1976
5: "A Field Guide to American Windmills" - T. Lindsay Baker Univ. of Oklahoma
Press - USA 1985 - ISBN: 0-8061-1901-2
7: "Wind Power" - Paul Gipe - Janes & Janes - London UK 2004 - ISBN: 1-902916-54-9
B: Wind - more theoretical:
1: "The Generation of Electricity by Wind Power" - E.W. Golding _ Spon London UK &
Philosophical Library NY USA 1955
2: "Wind-Powered Machines" [translation of the Soviet textbook - "
Vetroenergeticheskiye Agregaty"] - Ya. I. Shefter - NASA/NTIS -
NASA - TT F-15,149 USA Jan 1974
- : "Theory of Wing Sections" - Ira H. Abbott & Albert E. von Doenhoff USA [?]
- : Professor Johnson - from Texas - a search will find his site for down-loads
C: Wind - Sail Windmills:
1: "Constructional Manual for a Cretan Windmill" - Niek van de Ven - Netherlands
1977 - obtainable from WOT Netherlands.
2: The World Council of Churches in Geneva - during the late 1970's published
full drawings and full constructional description in French of the ultra-low
cost bamboo - "Pompe-Eolienne - SAHORES" -
All remaining copies of the book and all relevant archives were cleared-out
during office re-construction. If any friends or colleagues discover a good
hard copy kindly let me know and spread the news.
3: "Water-Pumping Windmill Book" - Gary Hirshberg & The New Alchemy Institute
Brickhouse Publishing Mass. USA 1982 - ISBN: 0-931790-23-9
This is a very good book and possibly still obtainable as a photocopy from
those who now have the NAI's archives
A good description together with some drawings of the construction of this
model is to be found in:
"Technological Self-sufficiency" - Robin Clarke London UK 1976 [& USA ?]
ISBN: 0-571-11057-6
4: Those who wish to construct a Cretan-sail windmill are welcome to contact me
for further information.
D: Wind - American-type water-pumping windmills.
1: "Technical Report plus drawings 1990 - WOT-Diever 450" - WOT Netherlands
On ordering this and the above mentioned title "C-1" - kindly insist on very
careful copying of the material - as there may occur legible errors on
certain of the drawings.
2: During the late 1970-80's the Australian Council of Churches published a
book-report - concerning a series of projects near Saighanchi Afghanistan - a
full set of deawings for the 12PU500 windmill were published - perhaps someone
in Australia can recover a copy of this now-lost material.
3: "Low-cost windmill for Developing Nations" - Hartmut Bossel - VITA
Publications USA 1970/1977
E: Hands-on constructional texts for small wind turbines under 1 kW.
- : The discussion-board, the archives & the links of the "otherpower"
- : Einfalle statt Abfalle: "Windkraft? Ganz einfach", Windkraft? Ja bitte",
"Windkraft? Echt stark" & "Langsamlaufer Windrad" - Christian Kuhtz -
http://www.oekobuch.de These 4 ultra-low priced fantastic booklets are more than full of 3D drawings
for the construction of simple & cheap wind turbines & can be understood by
ALL.
3: "Wind fur Haus und Hof" - Uwe Hallenga - very interesting two-bladed rotor and
good suggestions for simple transmission construction. - Germany 1990-1999 -
available from Oekobuch
4: The latest set of plans - from Hugh Piggott and likewise a copy of "Windpower
Workshop" - also by Hugh.
5: "Wind ins Netz" - G. Hacker - http://www.wind-mobil.de
[for small grid-connected wind turbines under 1-1.5 kW]
F. Hands-on constructional texts for small wind turbines under 20 kW.
1: "The Penryn Windmill Book" - Patrick Arnoldi Canada - a gold-mine of
information and although there are some minor errors - a copy should be on
every bookshelf and in all libraries.
2: "Handbuch Windenergie-Technik" - Horst Crome - Germany 2000-04 -
ISBN: 3-922964-78-8 http://oekobuch.de
This is one of the really essential books for all
- totally illustrated - with 3D drawings, photographs etc etc - showing the
construction by students from The Univ. of Technology in Bremen of a modern
smaller copy of a Danish Agricco-type grid-connected wind turbines from
1920's
- : "PTG - Wind turbine" - www.tvindkraft.dk
- : "Maine-built Windmills" - Everet Russel - an article from
"Home Power Magazine" # 79 - Oct-Nov 2000 -
http://homepower.com
5: I will not omit the famous book from Prof. La Cour "Landlige
Elektricitetsvaerker" [in Danish] "de-central electricial power stations"
Denmark 1907.
This book fully describes the construction and installation of de-central wind-diesel power plants with H2 as storage back-up [FROM the 1900's- 
].
The control systems are described in the book "Windmills & Windmotors" F.E.
Powell - New York USA 1910 [this book is now to be found in many places as
a re-print.
G: Hands-on horizontal rotors
1: "Der Savonius Rotor - Eine Bauanleiting" - Heinz Schultz - Germany 1989
Also available from http://oekobuch.de
2: There is much other good material - those who are further interested may
contact me - however Heinz Schultz's book is the only one capable of really
serious consideration and should be consulted first.
With greetings & best wishes to all - JF
