[DisasterRadio] Wind Power

Xavier Fiechter xavierfiechter at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 05:19:06 PST 2020


What about this design?
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:944461

We could combine the case for the ESP, the solar with the turbine directly.

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:46 PM Richard Attenborough <rattenbo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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