[Red Badger]

https://piratewindturbines.com/

[Paladin2]

Bennie caps rule....

[Paladin2]

Bennie caps rule....

[Wuli]

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.

[NWFree]

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

Have fun suckers

[Yo-Yo]

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...

[Tell It Right]

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.

[Wilderness Conservative]

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

[plain talk]

https://piratewindturbines.com/

[steve86]

“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.

[usurper]

Not sure this is new, go to any nice marina and you’ll see them on 50% of the sailboats.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Windmill makers solved this problem in the 19th century by simply turning the turbine away from the direction of the wind.

[DiogenesLamp]

I don’t actually grasp how this thing is beneficial. Could someone explain it in a few simple sentences?