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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: "And the answer is blowin' in the wind"Posted by N-set on: 10/21/2011

Not sure about US, but here in EU small wind turbines next to the houses
are quite popular.
There are compact models, without 100m span of the propeler.
Here is a random Polish DIY approach:

http://wiatrowa.pl.tl/

I personaly like it. If well done it's a sort of dynamical sculpture.
I might be wrong, but at least in Poland the so called law seems to oblige you to
connect your very own and private turbine to the greed anyway. There has even been
a case few years ago, which attracted a lot of publicity: an amateur engineer was able to power his house
entirely on his own and he wanted to disconnect from the greed. After a long battle
he has lost. Maybe now with all that ecological hysteria the rules are different.
Hurricanes are not. The very first picture in the link is the destroyed turbine after EMMA
(but the guy acknowledges that he'd made the turbine at the lowest possible cost).

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