Wind Generator?

rym87

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Hey Chris and Danduva,

Please send me contact information as soon as you get it. This is fantastic news if it's true. Thanks!
 

georgios

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Dominican made wind generator

Hello Danduva,

I read the related article at http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=1127

The information given is false.

The price of $1,000 is fiction.

To fabricate and install a support tower
at 100 feet c/w cement foundation, 8" tubular steel and guy wires is
estimated at $2,500 at best not including crane cost.

This wind generator is a vertical axis type. To rate this turbine at 3.5 kw
on a 10 km/h wind, the blade rotor must be 15 feet diameter and 10 feet
high. The cost to built this rotor is approx $3,000.

This wind generator needs to be equipped with a 3.5 kw permanent magnet
alternator and a bridge rectifier charge controller - estimated at $3,750.

Cost summary:
1. Tower $2,500
2. Rotor $3,000
3. Alternator $3,750

total $9,250

The inventor claims a total cost of $1,000 is not true.

El National and Dominican Today should investigate first before publishing
misleading articles about miracle wind turbines, especially vertical axis types.

Georgios.
 

james

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Georgios, the related article you referred to is a page of Dominican Today dated April 13/06 BUT the main article on that page is todays local news about blackouts and dated May 16th??

Dominican today must have switched something.
 

rym87

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I also didn't believe it. In the U.S., 3.5 kW wind turbines cost over $15,000, maybe more. Thanks for investigating this case.