Hello all.
Today, I had a bicycle ride around my local area and noticed a spinning wind turbine in the near distance, obviously I had to investigate..
Here's a camera phone image.
It's a Scottish companies Windsave turbine, that are distributed in the U.K. through a large DIY superstore B&Q and to be fair it was spinning very well when I saw it, in a (very approximate) 12 mph wind.
http://www.windsave.com/
Apparently the company 'Windsave' conducts a full site assessment prior to installation so they must have deemed this site appropriate, however it's actually lower than my location 1/2 mile up the road so I'm not sure how they came to that conclusion. My turbines perform badly - I have to take them elsewhere to test/evaluate.
Also, the bugalows wall mounting seemed similar to a satellite dish mounting, this concerned me also.
I certainly wouldn't mount a 1Kw wind turbine to a small bungalow outer wall just to save a few pounds (dollars) per month.
I'll try and have a chat with the owner this week and see how he/she reports back.
Ben.