Comments on: 1st Small Wind Turbine Gets AWEA Certification

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:47:00 +0000

Sorry, but what kind of experience do you have with it? Why should we believe you? These kind of things don’t get certification and permitting without extensive critical testing and evaluation.

That said, yes, for home clean energy, solar PV is probably best for the huge majority of people.

By: ear muffs

ear muffs — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:13:00 +0000

This thing is incredibly noisy to the point of being frighting during a storm. It should come with a bullet proof vest ( the neighbors are not going to be happy ) I bet they would pool together and pay your electric bill rather than have this monstrosity screaming over the landscape. No decent person would put one of these within 1 mile of a neighbor. Local taxes will have to be adjusted for compensate anyone close by. Once the government had to start giving up some of its income we will see how things go. Oh, and dont plan on selling your place on a breezy day, It ain’t gonna happen. And dont even start with the “green” stuff.This is not a green issue because this is not green. When this thing is generating the grid is always well within it’s capacity to supply 100% of power needed. If you could get this thing to generate when its over 100 and no wind, then the grid could use it.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Me too

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:43:00 +0000

I think this is great news. I have been researching alternative energy, solar and wind, especially small wind turbines. I really thank you for this article and expressing the efficiency of this alternative energy. The more we adopt renewable sources such as the sun and wind, the more independent we can be.

By: Upwind Study: 20 MW Wind Turbines are on the Horizon | CleanTechnica

Upwind Study: 20 MW Wind Turbines are on the Horizon | CleanTechnica — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:37:26 +0000

[…] unsubsidized, in the United States, and assuming a capacity factor of 35%, according to the NREL).Small wind turbines often fail to pay for themselves due to unacceptably slow wind speeds at altitudes of less than 20 […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:33:00 +0000

I’m sorry, I haven’t seen anything about that, but it doesn’t look at all like the team that came up with this certification problem is sketchy. If you have some information to share, please do, but just making claims like this doesn’t do much for me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:21:00 +0000

Take a trip to the grocery store.

Buy a roll of aluminum foil.

Make yourself a new tin hat. The old one seems to be failing you….

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:39:00 +0000

Before we get too excited about this, would someone like to dig a bit deeper into the scandal surrounding the need for this certification? Or perhaps Mike Bergey’s involvement in the scrapping of the California rebate program? Or perhaps Mike
Bergey’s personal involvement with the organization that “certified” his turbine? There’s a world of soap opera material here and we only hear the “company line”. ‘Tis a joke, not real reporting.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:34:00 +0000

You mean convert our transportation system to natural gas?

Do that and we do cut our foreign oil purchases but we also burn through our own natural gas and end up right back where we are. Along with a lot of unnecessary CO2 in the atmosphere.

Let’s just switch to electricity. We have the technology to generate electricity without fossil fuels. And to generate it cheaply. We have electric cars (EVs and PHEVs) that will work for almost all drivers and would let us cut our personal transportation oil usage by more than 80% in only one generation of vehicles.

By: Techno

Techno — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Great news!! I am pleased to see more and more people trying to help themselves by producing their
own electricity and at the same time, reducing oil imports, hope that in the near future, we may not have to import nothing, provided we all could be allowed to implement the Pickens Plan.