Talk:Small wind turbine

DIY Open Source Wind Turbines
I suggest a Wikibook about DIY Open Source Wind Turbines. --Mac (talk) 07:32, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Profitable
It should be noted in the article that small wind turbines are only profitable after 18 to 30 years (with best turbines namely montana and skystream), and this only trough government subsidy (Belgium). See enerpedia.be Purchasing price: 10 000-30 000 € per unit (generates some 45-2180kwh in 10months) Models used: see http://provincie.zeeland.nl/milieu_natuur/windenergie/kleine_windturbines/de_turbines

As such, perhaps the article should note that commercial (not DIY) turbines are not really profitable.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.246.142.167 (talk) 15:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Neither DIY are. Follow that link about "open source" turbines and check out from which junk they are suggesting to build a tower for it. Years of service, hah. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.77.20.113 (talk) 17:53, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Earth4Energy
Earth4Energy has been pretty comprehensively debunked at http://www.nlcpr.com/Deceptions6.php - suggest that it is not relisted. Shritwod (talk) 15:33, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

New developments
The new developments section had become nothing more than a list of adverts for new products. I removed the section; but wanted to post a mention here so a discussion can be started to determine if the community feels there are pieces of material that could be salvaged into a prose paragraph or two. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:38, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Very small wind turbines
what about very small wind turbines (ie as used by travellers) see http://www.hymini.com/html/HYmini.html ?
 * How much coverage do you think this pointless toy is worth? --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:18, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Useless Reference Link
Footnote 4 points to something completely unrelated, the article is talking about disruptive effects of obstacles and their boundary layers, but the link is a page about a paper about a wrench... http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=224426&id=2&as=false&or=false&qs=Ns%3DPublicationYear%257c1%26N%3D4294892717 Hyrulio (talk) 04:24, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Small wind turbine. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120111063638/http://www.windenergy.com/index_wind.htm to http://www.windenergy.com/index_wind.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20111001134314/http://homepower.com/view/?file=HP105_pg64_Woofenden to http://www.homepower.com/view/?file=HP105_pg64_Woofenden
 * Added tag to http://kreeft.zeeland.nl/zeesterdoc/ZBI-O/ZEE/ZEE0/9007/900786_1.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 06:10, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Small wind turbine. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130302211547/http://www.ontario-sea.org/Storage/39/3065_Small_Wind_Turbine_Purchasing_Guide_-_Off-grid%2C_Residential%2C_Farm_%26_Small_Business_Applications.pdf to http://www.ontario-sea.org/Storage/39/3065_Small_Wind_Turbine_Purchasing_Guide_-_Off-grid%2C_Residential%2C_Farm_%26_Small_Business_Applications.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130302211547/http://www.ontario-sea.org/Storage/39/3065_Small_Wind_Turbine_Purchasing_Guide_-_Off-grid%2C_Residential%2C_Farm_%26_Small_Business_Applications.pdf to http://www.ontario-sea.org/Storage/39/3065_Small_Wind_Turbine_Purchasing_Guide_-_Off-grid%2C_Residential%2C_Farm_%26_Small_Business_Applications.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090206010424/http://ieawind.org/Task_11/TopicalExpert/Summary_49_Small_Wind_Turbines.pdf to http://www.ieawind.org/Task_11/TopicalExpert/Summary_49_Small_Wind_Turbines.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140813213223/http://www.prekladatelia.info/hawt/english.html to http://www.prekladatelia.info/hawt/english.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 21:32, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Small wind turbine. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20111204222254/http://www.bwea.com/you/byo.html to http://www.bwea.com/you/byo.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 21:37, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Ryse Energy
Is this a fact or a biased opinion "Ryse Energy are the only small wind turbine manufacturer to produce both horizontal axis wind turbines, and vertical axis wind turbines" I added a citation needed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burnt micah (talk • contribs) 05:19, 19 December 2020 (UTC)