Re: UK company brings affordable home windmill to the masses

jimp_at_specsol-spam-sux.com
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:10:44 +0000 (UTC)

In sci.physics habshi <habshi@anony.com> wrote:

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> Unlike old-style domestic wind generators, which needed a lot of land,
> sat on top of poles and drove pumps and a few bulbs for farmers and
> backwoodsmen, the machine does not need batteries to store the
> electricity. Instead, it tops up the existing mains supply.

> Unlike bigger systems, it cannot sell excess power back into the grid.
> But the company believes it has cracked the holy grail of renewable
> energy - getting government subsidies and making the machines silent.

Unless you can get paid, or at least reduce your bill, with a generator's
output, it is a money losing piece of crap.

Where do you think government gets the money for government subsidies
plus administrative overhead?

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> The system, says the Scottish inventor David Gordon, who has pumped
> ?1m into the idea, can generate up to 750 watts - enough to power
> lights but not high-energy items such as kettles or heaters.

Or televisions, or computers, or air conditioning, or much or anything
useful.

> "Nobody has been able to take raw wind power and put it straight into
> the domestic electrical system at 240 volts," he said. "We will be
> able to bring green energy to the masses."

A quick google search show this statement to be as best stupid, at
worst an outright lie. 

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Jim Pennino
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