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Small scale wind turbines to supplement one home make sense. Large scale turbines trying to power the grid do not.

Agree and when your small scale turbine gets old and rusty just recycle the metal and get a new one.

[Calvin Locke]

Read an article on a very small scale, and cheap turbine. Basically a $20 (at the time) GE motor housed mostly in a 2 ltr soda bottle mounted on a deck post. The blades were recycled from a fan.

Battery storage or not, I wouldn't rely on it to power a 12v refrigerator, but lights and laptops, why not?