Does anyone have information on the development of wind energy in the Dominican Republic. If so, where and by whom.
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Actually, if you check the unit featured in the Green Team blog entry, you'll see that it can be lowered and secured when there is an approaching storm. The problem you're raising would affect more the large units on wind farms, I think. However, I've not heard of it harming the wind farms on Cuba or Jamaica...The problem with using wind generators in the DR is the constant barrage of tropical storms and major hurricanes that affect the island almost yearly...
To replace those units after damages from one such thing is costly and will just erase any savings accumulated since the first day against the local thieving electrical companies...
What about water pumping options. Wind-powered water pumps were so common in the US years back, and they would work great here. Anyone have connections for DR purchase? I'd be happy to even find a durable hand pump. Ideas?
Thanks, Georgios. I am interested in electrical pumps for various uses including water pumping, but one of our wells has a high sediment content that burns out any electrical pump we hook up to it. The water is great for our mineral bath/soak, so we would love to have access to it, but the pump to get it out would need to be either hand powered or a mechanical wind pump.
Anyone have any contacts?
I've been to the massive wind turbine farm on the southern tip of the big island of Hawaii. Huge. I mean huge. I don't see how they could possibly be lowered. They make a loud "swwoooooosh swoooooosh" sound as the massive blades go by.What's is the noise like, if any?
CB, as I understand it, the massive ones on wind farms don't tilt. The small-scale units serving a single farm or home, like the one featured in the aforementioned Green Team article, can/do. But as I noted before, other nations in the Caribbean hurricane corridor manage to have wind farms with the "massive turbines," so I suspect the DR could too.