I agree, using less is never discussed in the media. The more we find the more we use and that is not the answer in my most humble opinion.Never heard of him, I'll have a look.
Anything I can put together from scrap and easily maintain has my vote.
Whilst I do believe harnessing wind power is definitely the way to go I don't foresee everyone having their own system so ultimately the majority will still depend on the grid, regardless of where it comes from. The key to making it work is not in finding more but using less.
Oh, definitely needs scaling up. I haven't got mine sorted to actually generate yet as I want to make the generator, etc so it just spins in the wind as a thing currently but if you search for ugrinsky there, it's the stack of 3d printed sections - in theory easy to make a massive stack or multiples, etc. I don't have any real vision of it being a reliable system for my use as wind is not a big resource where I am.Stew, the one you mentioned you had to play with, is it capable of useful output or would it need scaling up?
Switching over to LED lighting? It's old hat now but there are probably still some hold outs that haven't changed over.I agree, using less is never discussed in the media. The more we find the more we use and that is not the answer in my most humble opinion.
Energy isn't 'one size fits all'.
I don't need 240V when I'm camping, but something to charge a phone, or a torch, a radio or provide a decent light is a blessing
Similarly at home, many items in common use do not require heavy power. The main domestic ones, cooker, washing machine, tumble dry, microwave and kettle do, but LED lights, trickle charge items and the like don't.
Horses for courses but 'free' power, think dynamo rather than generator ?
I'm wondering if it'd provide just enough power in the middle of Winter to provide for undersoil heating in a greenhouse ?
The power generated by the wind is proportional to the swept square area of the blades for any given wind speed. If it's only got little blades the swept area is small and the power will be low. A 300w flexible solar panel will provide more power even on a dull day I suspect.
That just isn't my experience TBH. The solar panel on the hut in the wood continues generating when the trees are in full leaf and it's a cloudy day. OK, it may well be less than 50% but that will still be more (and more convenient) than a kite system IMO.
But not at night....and we have at most eight hours of light in Winter....that's a long time dark.The power generated by the wind is proportional to the swept square area of the blades for any given wind speed. If it's only got little blades the swept area is small and the power will be low. A 300w flexible solar panel will provide more power even on a dull day I suspect.
But not at night....and we have at most eight hours of light in Winter....that's a long time dark.
No, I think it's valid, but then I live with wind. It is very rare for us to have 'no' wind. It's not rare for us not to see that hot yellow ball thing in the sky for weeks on end....and I wasn't joking about there only being eight hours of daylight when it 'might' be available.
We all have garden solar lights round here. Just now our evenings are lit up like a fairground ..... they don't work at all for much of the year though.
A wee dynamo type wind thing however, and I could happily have light in my green house all year round
No, I think it's valid, but then I live with wind. It is very rare for us to have 'no' wind. It's not rare for us not to see that hot yellow ball thing in the sky for weeks on end....and I wasn't joking about there only being eight hours of daylight when it 'might' be available.
We all have garden solar lights round here. Just now our evenings are lit up like a fairground ..... they don't work at all for much of the year though.
A wee dynamo type wind thing however, and I could happily have light in my green house all year round
Wind turbines are noisy, even the wee ones stuck up on lamp posts or clothes poles are noisy....yet my wind spinner ornaments are pretty quiet.For "wee dynamo type wind thing" read "wind turbine"!
You can attach a kite if you must!
Wind turbines are noisy, even the wee ones stuck up on lamp posts or clothes poles are noisy....yet my wind spinner ornaments are pretty quiet.
I once started a quilt, with a small block made every day of the weather of that day...I started it on the 1st of January and by the end of February I was so fed up of sewing grey and shades of grey that I gave up. I'm not joking about sunshine being a rare thing through a big bit of our year. Yet wind is pretty much commonplace.
The other thing is that this looks very die-able for small stuff....and I don't need to buy solar panels. I wonder if a windsock would work, like the Dyson fan ? I have 7m tall windsock poles that we use to fly flags upon around our sites. They're fibreglass thankfully because they're often bent almost flat with the wind.