20 HUGE wind turbines for Huron County! Ask me anything!

[Tyler Durden]

I just got a call from the Ashfield-Colbourne-Wawanosh Township Building Inspector and our permit will be ready for the basement and septic field next week. He also told me that they will be NINE MORE Vesta Wind Turbines joining the one that's about a mile from our property in Huron County, Ontario, AND that ANOTHER 10 will be put in between Goderich and Blythe!

Add to that the three 800 watt/12 volt turbines that the wife tells me were delivered today, and I could not be more psyched!

[Tyler Durden]

1. OK, I'll just sit here and think about FREE electricity!

gloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloatgloat

[DoBotherMe]

2. Congratulations!

I've been looking these homes: http://www.enertia.com And I am still dreaming of getting off the grid, but may have to modify that dream to energy use reduction instead. Dana ; )

[jpak]

3. Am I right??? Did you say you got three 800 watt turbines

for your new home????

If so - WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Tyler Durden]

8. For a measley $1000 bucks, too!!!

No inverter or batteries but the regulator comes with the system

Mail me, and I'll tell you where, can't remember the addy of the store and I'm at work.

[jpak]

11. Holy COW!!!!!

2.4 kilowatts for $1000!!!!

$2.40 a peak watt - that's a bargin - WOW!!!!

I'd be doing the happy dance too...

:):):):)

[Tyler Durden]

14. Actually, they PEAK at 1.2 KILOWATTS

EACH! That's 3.6 kilowatts peak output.

the 6 blade design is good to 130 MPH winds without feathering, but they will do 1.2K at about 50-60MPH.

[jpak]

16. Now I'm really jealous...

:)

What's their start-up wind speed?

Must be pretty low with 6 blades...

How big a battery bank are you going to get????

[bif]

4. Next time I'm in your area, I'll look for them

We go to the Pinery every summer.

[Tyler Durden]

10. Not far enough north!

But you should make the trip to Kincardine on a Saturday night and march in the Pipe band parade.

[Squeech]

5. Yay!

That's what I'd do, if I had investment capital: buy an old family farm that went bankrupt, and raise turbines.

And dental floss. Just me and the pygmy pony.

[Ravenseye]

6. A nut once told me wind turbines were bad

something about raising the temperatures downwind from where they are significantly because they reduce the amount of wind.

He seemed completely insane to me, but he was a college professor so I didn't outright laugh at him.

Are there any negative sides to wind turbines?

[Worst Username Ever]

12. That is correct to a point

We are basically screwed no matter what we do, but turbines are a cleaner/safer alternative than oil (imo). When you take energy from something, it obviously going to decrease the amount of energy from the level that it was originally. Although it is difficult to imagine "slowing down the wind," but that is, to a degree, what happends. I think it is pretty insignificant, but then again that is what people once said about a little automobile exhaust in the air. The same thing happens with water turbines, they slow down/decrease the waves of the ocean.

Posssible effects I think are genrally related to the fact that without enough wind, etc, natural erosion cycles are changed, and things like seeds from plants are less likely to be carried as far as they would normally. I think it also can have an effect on migrating birds. Pretty much anything that is naturally affected by the wind can be affected by a (significant) decrease in wind...

[redqueen]

7. Yay you!

How much do those things cost?

[Tyler Durden]

9. $1000 for THREE of them.

message me, and I'll tell you where later, I don't have the addy at work.

[Worst Username Ever]

13. How big are they?

I have this mental picture of these towering structures. Also, what happens when there is no wind? Battery back up?

[Tyler Durden]

15. Backup from charging batteries and the local Power Co-op.

We'll be buying "Green Tags" for $75 ea/CDN. That buys you 1 megawatt/hour.

That's enough to run a 10 am load at 110 volts for about 900 hours (or 37.5 DAYS, 24 hours a day). It's like a bank: you use it as you use it, and they use the surplus over market to build more turbines. That's how they got the 20 they are building NOW!

[RedCloud]

17. You getting a rain catchment system too?

Boy, talk about taking a dump on the energy moguls!

[Tyler Durden]

18. http://www.mikeswindmillshop.com/

not to be an "ad" for this guy, but they're simple, build like a tank, and look like my grandkids will be using them.