Re: Domestic wind turbine

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now that sounds more like it!! :)
thats the kind of figures i imagined in my head!
Even with the additional cost of the dc - ac converter thingy, it
still would work out quite well!

cheers for that.
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@x...> wrote:
>
> The numbers in the beeb article are wildly inaccurate - either that
or he
> has chosen the most inefficient wind turbine on the planet.
>=20
> A typical 3 blade turbine about that size, which are also quieter
than the 5
> blade version he has, should be generating about 350W. That's a
planning
> figure from Rutland who make a lot of the smaller turbines for
off-grid
> homes, bothies outhouses etc.
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> I make that 3,066Kwh per year, not 600, so he's saving =A3220 a year,
not =A342.
> It's also worth noting that these turbines cost about =A31200 + VAT,
which is
> *before* any clear skies style grant comes into play.
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> With the right turbine he'd be looking at payback in about 6 years
without
> grant assistance, about 4 years with.=20
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> The turbine will have a 30 year lifespan (if it's similar to the
Rutland
> ones I have seen), so he'd also be looking at a good twenty years of
"free"
> power generation from it.
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> That and, of course, he won't be affected so much by the constant
rise of
> leccy prices in the face of reducing oil supplies.
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> I wouldn't do it as a retrofit, but at this point - I don't think I
would
> consider a self build without a combined solar/wind system.
>=20
> Automation has great potential for energy management as well as cool
tricks.
> :D
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> I.
>=20=20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> noel_pilot
> Sent: 26 October 2005 13:25
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Domestic wind turbine
>=20
> That sounds about right, so on those figures, 600kWh per year is
gonna save
> him =A342 a year, its going to take him 47 years to get his =A32000
back
> assuming that he has no maintenance costs in the meantime!
>=20
> Am I thinking this the right way? I think its a great idea, I'd love
one but
> it would have to make financial sense!
>