[DisasterRadio] Wind Power

[Xavier Fiechter]

I would love to see a lot of devices mounted stationary – not only for
disasters.
This whould allow to have redundent communication network like the goTenna.
If it has wind + solar the box could be mounted on the roof and
"forgotten".

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:26 PM Taylor Hay <taylorhayis at icloud.com> wrote:

> I quite like the hand crank system, but it depends on what type of
> disaster we are anticipating.
> Solar / wind works great if you’re holed up, the hand crank works great on
> the move - personally I’ve been working on a board that has ac/dc
> conversion, and whatever voltage you feed into it in whatever polarity, it
> charges the attached USB power bank.
> This could be another option to allow people to clamp onto car batteries,
> power points, train reading lights (that was the inspiration for the idea)
> etc
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 27 Feb 2020, at 00:19, Xavier Fiechter <xavierfiechter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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