The numbers save you very little and if you stay in the same place for 30 years, it barley saves you money. A lot of people I work with were into it and did all kinds of research and number crunching.
Like this guy⌠ebay the solar panels⌠and garbage pick the rest of the materials⌠Obviously some stuff is going to cost you⌠but there are super cheap alternatives
Bumping this thread because my neighbor applied for a variance for a wind mill. lol
He claims it is only 55 decibels at the highest and the wind would be louder than 55.
It is 120 feet tall.
I almost fell over when he said it would supply half of his needs and would cost $70,000.
Sounds like an expensive hobby. (there are nice tax incentives but stillâŚ) http://www.bergey.com/
After a quick look at the website they are about $29000. Not sure where he came up with $70,000.
I dated a girl that had family with a brand new wind turbine. That mother Fâr was loud and ugly. They spent a good 10-15k on it, so it wasnât a cheap one. If my neighbor had one of those going all summer, I would shoot it with a shotgun for sure.
That doesnât make sense to me. The smaller the diameter the less distance traveled therefore lower speed. Unless you are saying they are much higher rpm.
Turbines need to convert wind to power. If you have low surface area due to a small diameter, then you low torque and have to spin it faster to extract the power. If you have lots of surface area, you have lots of torque, and you can spin it slower.
You could be making parts for home wind mills. You have an entire shop at your disposal. Most homemade windmills utilize a motor from some sort of older NC or CNC unitâŚdo you have anything broken or out of commission you can rob a motor from? You should work with one of your designers to come up with something and test it at your plant. You can do all testing and development at your shop, power your shop for validation purposes, manufacture and sell.
This is a win win and I bet there are even some grants available for such ventures.
My neighbor made the Buffalo News. There is a town code that limits accessary strutures to 15â in resdiential areas so he was denied based on that. The thing is he is in agricultural not residential zoning. There are plenty of structures in the area that are taller than 15â. Maybe they were constructed before the code existed.:gotme:
^I just might, the biggest challenge is that I have no electrical engineers on staff.
Aurora is now considering a moratorium on wind turbines to pretty much ban them for 6 months until the town can create some regulations which they should have done about 8 years ago when this last came up.