[DisasterRadio] Wind Power

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It's nice to see how this project evolves!
Are there limitations regarding mesh size / amount of devices in the mesh?


Am Mi., 26. Feb. 2020 um 21:51 Uhr schrieb Xavier Fiechter <
xavierfiechter at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
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