Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amdahl!ems From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (Edward Michael Smith) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Info needed: windmills for private electricity generation Message-ID: <456@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 17:45:30 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.456 Posted: Fri Nov 2 17:45:30 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 22:36:20 EST References: <136@logico.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 21 > there are a lot of variables I still do not know about. How much money > will get you how much power? Who makes them? Can I make my own, from > scratch, or from a kit? What kind of efficiencies are possible and > practical? > There are many good books on windmills, and several companys that make them. (Also some bogus books and companies...). One book I remember was The Mother Earth Handbook of Homemade Power (?) or something like that. I will get the correct reference from home. It gave several ways to do it your self. As for the purchased windmills, pick up a copy of The Mother Earth News. Lots of ads in it. I also remember having seen a small one advertized in a boating magazine for use on sailing ships... If I remember right (which is often in doubt...) the cost was about $2k per peak kilowatt. $/average kw depends on your wind. -- E. Michael Smith ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily those of anyone. (And certainly not of Amdahl, any lawyers, and all the ships at sea.)