Tower options for Wind Generator? - Page 8

 

robvann wrote:

more blades, less speed, better for mechanical processing than electrical.

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The link IS working for me today.
WOW those are amazing towers.  I guess I will have to enroll a welding
class so I can build one of those puppys! <SMILE>

 

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<http://www.northeastwindenergy.com/towers.html   >
<http://www.northeastwindenergy.com/>

If you use the right pipe size it could double as a pumpkin gun.  :-)

Wayne

 


The website is a bit strange, in that there's essentially nothing there
but pictures and an email address...where the guy is located, what this
all costs, whether it's just his system or he's building them for sale,
just no info about any of that on the site.

Sure looks like one of these could actually loft something up above my
~85 foot tree canopy, while making it possible to work on; Guyed towers
are a bit problematic in the forest, while this could be done. Probably
does not make economic sense still, given poor wind zone (Class 1), and
it would also need blessing by the town (rural, low-oversight, but if
it's over 35 feet tall and not a silo or barn, we need to talk about it
before you build it). I don't think anyone's going to buy that it's a
silo...

Of course, sticking way up from the trees like that, it would make a
spiffy lightning rod. Good if it works as LRs are supposed to (drain off
charge and avoid lighting strikes), bad if it got nailed and took out
itself and however much of the rest of the power system...I gather from
comments Steve and others have made that the latter mode is a bit too
common...

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Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by

 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:13:33 GMT, Ecnerwal


It's not a commercial site, the towers and turbines are for his own
use. I contacted him several years ago to get his opinion on some
ideas for my own tower. Because of the size of his projects, I figured
he had a crew and some heavy equipment. Instead it turned out that
he's one of those guys who just manages to get things done. Check out
the lattice tower - an observation deck and an *elevator*!


It would still be an ambitious project, but you could do a variation
on my setup - a free-standing tower with a separate hoisting mast and
counterweight. Simpler hinging and mechanics. It could be lattice part
way and monopole the rest. Still a relatively small clear-area.
http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/tower%20hoist%20layout%20700.jpg

Wayne