Comments on: Small wind turbine works at low wind speeds

WindTronics says its $4,500 Honeywell Wind Turbine will generate electricity starting with 2-mile-per-hour wind, addressing one of the biggest barriers in small wind.

[callabreeze]

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[knsh06]

It is presumed that the Wind Turbine has been type tested. Capability for withstanding extreme wind speed has to be established.

[coxus]

My interest is to purchase a wind turbine jet type with magnets capable to produce electricity up to 20kwatts at low wind speeds .

I am looking for a supplier? Can anyone help with this? it´s kind of urgent

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[otherpower]

Seems like more pie in the sky for small wind to me. It's well knows that roof tops are not a wind resource. There is also a very simple formula that allows us to calculate exactly how much power is available in the wind at any given windspeed and these guys are violating that - in very low speeds, by a factor of about 300%! One should think that Honeywell would at least look at the laws of physics before they make impossible claims about a product. Quite annoying... I wonder what would happen if Ford tried to sell a full sized pickup that got 20mpg when they claimed 50 mpg? Folks would be up in arms and there'd be lawsuits. Somehow people get away with this stuff in small wind. I don't see much new here... the blades seem inefficient, the power curve is in violation of the laws of physics, the alternator is clever but not groundbreaking in any way. The swept area is small and so will the energy production be small. Folks who buy this are likely going to be very upset if they monitor the energy it produces.

[pablogrimes]

Well, the plot sickens. It appears that the aforementioned $4500 was optimistic...or could it be that Ace is looking for a pretty decent markup?

Check it out...available (in-store) only in Jan 2010...only $5999.99...plus tax...ouch.

http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3800670

[anteror]

Read this, you can buy a good wind generator...

http://www.thebackshed.com/windmill/forum1/forum_posts.asp?TID=2034&PN=1

Antero
Finland