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Has a San Antonio Inventor Solved a Problem of Small-scale Wind Power?
www.texasmonthly.com ^ | August 10, 2023 | By Michael Agresta

Posted on 09/06/2023 11:09:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/06/2023 11:09:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Bennie caps rule....


2 posted on 09/06/2023 11:14:45 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

Bennie caps rule....


3 posted on 09/06/2023 11:14:45 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

?..............


4 posted on 09/06/2023 11:15:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’ll wait for the small fusion reactor that can power a car, “back to the future style”. If it could power a car, it can run a transformer to more than power a house.


5 posted on 09/06/2023 11:17:09 AM PDT by Wuli
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Bennie caps rule....

You mean BEANIE caps?


6 posted on 09/06/2023 11:18:21 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Red Badger

You’re going to need to haul around all kinds of crap to charge your battery cars.

Have fun suckers


7 posted on 09/06/2023 11:18:22 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Red Badger
Last I checked, these small wind turbines use automotive alternators to generate power, and automotive alternators have built-in magnetic field regulation so that no matter how fast you spin them, they don't overcharge the battery.

Some secret sauce...

8 posted on 09/06/2023 11:20:24 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Yep. Thanks.


9 posted on 09/06/2023 11:20:53 AM PDT by Paladin2
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In the small-scale solar world we get around this problem in a simpler way -- we user larger capacity charge controllers.

For example, I have 20kW of solar panels going into two inverter/charge controller boxes (each inverter has 10kW of solar panels feeding into it). Yet each box can handle up to 12kW. I do this because there are a few times when my solar panels exceed their stated throughput, which is when the weather is cold (below freezing) and sunny. That doesn't happen often where I live (in Alabama when it's below freezing it's almost always at night). But I have to be prepared for the few times it does happen and my 20kW solar panels give me 21 or 22kW (no problem because my inverter/charge controller boxes can handle up to 24kW).

Can't the same be done by people who want to use small-scale wind turbines to make themselves a bit more energy self-reliant? Or is the scale up to charge capacity too high for the few times it happens? (i.e. too costly to handle charge from 30 mph winds when the average day is 7 mph) It seems like it'd be way simpler and easier to maintain than having turbine blades that fold or twist or whatever in high winds.

10 posted on 09/06/2023 11:21:33 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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These things have been on the market for boaters and campers for years. I know a guy who’s lived on his sailboat and has used it for power since the 90’s


11 posted on 09/06/2023 11:22:04 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Wuli

Mr. Fusion is what I want.


12 posted on 09/06/2023 11:22:10 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

https://piratewindturbines.com/


13 posted on 09/06/2023 11:24:44 AM PDT by plain talk
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“To power everything in your home (at least when the wind is blowing), you’d need more like five thousand watts”

LOL. Maybe if you have a natural gas home..

That’s just the electric water heater in my home.


14 posted on 09/06/2023 11:26:59 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Yo-Yo

Have a friend in NC that generates/recharges a battery bank with a river/alternator system.


15 posted on 09/06/2023 11:33:37 AM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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“That’s just the electric water heater in my home.”

And that or your pool heater is what you’d use (with a little modding), along with a couple of cheap relays, in lieu of buying that “electronic brake” for $1k.


16 posted on 09/06/2023 11:34:13 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Not sure this is new, go to any nice marina and you’ll see them on 50% of the sailboats.


17 posted on 09/06/2023 11:34:42 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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Not sure this is new, go to any nice marina and you’ll see them on 50% of the sailboats.

Yep, and with some solar panels you can recharge what you need for the next day.

18 posted on 09/06/2023 11:38:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I think his key claim is 30% more power at 40% less cost. One unanswered question is the durability.


19 posted on 09/06/2023 11:43:47 AM PDT by alternatives?
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The Germans have a terrific problem when the wind blows to hard and their offshore turbines over generate. They used to just dump electrons on the Poles and the Czechs and blow out their grids. But, Poland built a $100 million dollar resistor on the border to keep that from happening.


20 posted on 09/06/2023 11:47:38 AM PDT by MMusson
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