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[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

<looks around Awkwardly >

Your tank, Silly. Not like I have a weird fettish or anything...... I am just in love with your tank

[Gizmo]

These are the turbines i'm installing. It took some doing with the city to get them allowed, but all is good.
http://www.windterra.com/



They stand about 2m high and 2m diameter. And no, thats not my house below.

[24storm]

I am curious as to how much they are? If your not comfortable posting it up send me a PM please. How much power would they generate in your area i cannot say that i have paid attention to how much the wind blows but i am thinking its not windy enough to make that much power but i could be wrong. I would be very interested in doing something like this.

Thanks Keith

[mseepman]

I would for sure be interested too. I'm looking to build a new home and now is the time to investigate this stuff.

[Gizmo]

www.windterra.com has some info on energy to windspeed ratios. But if the wind is givin you can get 1200watts.
Price point I would say you can get them around $8500 plus install. (I bought the prototypes so my price isn't retail)

[Gizmo]

Here are the renderings I did for our house when I had to apply for a permit. Sorry About the size.

[Delphinus]

How does it work, do you have to have large batteries that get charged by the turbines then you run a circuit off that, or there some kind of automatic load balancing for the whole house? Sorry to go a little off topic, it's just interesting stuff.

I wonder how hard it'd be to get a permit in Calgary for those. It's already a little bit absurd how hard it can be to get permits for solar panels - although I think I've heard that council is considering softening the process a bit to encourage green thinking - but I don't think anything's come of it as yet. So something that's moving and a bit of a visual attractant, man I could just see those bureaucrats having a hey day with it.