With one turbine up, others may follow
There is a lot of comment and discussion underneath the article. What I find striking and alarming is that nobody seems to notice that the tower is so short that the wind turbine is not being exposed to any wind. It makes me angry and sad to see small wind turbines of this sort, sited in this way, being held up as examples of the way forward. Anyone with any real knowledge and experience of small wind turbines knows that they need to be on tall towers above surrounding obstacles to work properly. This site is like putting a solar panel in the cellar. Also the turbine type is a VAWT which has huge problems but we can put that to one side since it is never going to produce any useful energy placed like that in any case. grrrr.
(excuse my english...I'm french :P)
ReplyDeleteWell, due to the visual, I find it kinda hard to really get where this WT is placed .
from what I see, it's standing back the house, and with the perspective of the extremity of this house, the bottom of this VAWT can possibly be 6 meters or more above the roof."can"
and with the falling leaves in midwinter, this WT perhaps is not so few exposed ?
Well, putting aside that a VAWT is deep hlhhgvlh...
Sorry but your optimism is misplaced - there is no way that "the bottom of this VAWT can possibly be 6 meters or more above the roof."can"
ReplyDeleteand with the falling leaves in midwinter, this WT perhaps is not so few exposed ?
The original article clearly says - "All have a base about 5 feet in diameter and are typically about 18 feet tall, shorter than most tree lines."
It says a lot that they boast about it being shorter than the tree line.
grrrr indeed
Surely, being a VAWT it will use gusts more efficiently than a HAWT. It is in an urban location with (probably) little direct constant direction wind so a VAWT would seem the best bet for the location. Given a good open space and room for a tall mast than HAWT everytime but in this location, hmmmm. VAWT does eem to make more sense. And all efficiencies aside, anything is better than nothing when we are talking about free wind energy.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly mad, I must have the best photo of the worse placed Rutland wind turbine ever, It is placed at the bottom of a 30 meter deep railway cutting with 30 foot tall trees at the top, the railway cutting faces south so it does not get any wind at all. It only goes round sometimes when a train goes past .I will forward you on a photo.
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