[DisasterRadio] Wind Power

[Richard Attenborough]

Folks,

Solar is probably the best way to go anywhere south of the Arctic Circle
but you may need to drastically increase the size of the solar panel to
deal with areas with seasonally reduced sunlight.

Richard.

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:26 AM Marc Juul <marc at juul.io> wrote:

> On 2/26/20, samuk at disroot.org <samuk at disroot.org> wrote:
> > I'd be tempted to look at Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) as I think
> they
> > stand a better chance of surviving storms.
>
> They're certainly better than some of the simplistic traditional
> generators, however some traditional wind generators can be rotated
> out of the wind (or do so automatically if they're fancy) if speeds
> get too high where the vertical models have no way to slow down. I've
> seen people add centrifugal breaks to the vertical turbines so that
> could be an option.
>
> --
> marc/juul
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