[pf] wind-power picture and letter. & Make-your-own turbine & car.

· letter from a wind-turbine pioneer in Denmark.

· People like Claus Nybroe, Mike Bergey, Paul Gipe, Andy Kruse and Hugh
Piggott are making history in the small windturbine sector.

· I really don't understand why politics (who is the president of the USA)
is considered so important. The real work is being done elsewhere.


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http://www.windpower.dk/res/curvesk.jpg

is referred-to on:
http://www.windpower.dk/news/webcam.htm


From: Claus Nybroe <windmission@vip.cybercity.dk>
To: mailing list awea-wind-home@egroups.com
List-Subscribe: <mailto:awea-wind-home-subscribe@egroups.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:55:47 +0100
Subject: [a-w-h] Re: PMG (permanent magnet generator)

Dear Ian, c-a and others

Thanks again for nice words and thoughts regarding the burning down of our
house and workshop. Yes the last three months my thoughts have been a bit
away from small scale wind power. I have managed to draw a new house
(fairly good at AutoCad by now) and get an approval for it. Took long as I
had to earn a bit in between.

Some of you have asked about my mental condition. Was I depressed? No, not
really, more shocked or astonished. Why God, why? Well, the answer is
blowing in the wind.

The next day, if the house had not burned down that is, I had planned to
install the prototype of the 2.7 m 12-bladed Windflower (super "wind rose")
with a colleague from the Warsaw University. I also had two three-bladers
coming up this fall.

So, in a way I felt like an athlete, top trimmed for the olympic games -
and then BANG, legs off or something like that. Now, luckily, I feel like
getting up from the wheel chair.

I saved most of the Windflower but it will not be until after New Year we
get the the prototype flying, as I have to produce the yearly newsletter
for Bonus Energy. The have their 20 x 2 MW going up in the sea outside
Copenhagen. In this respect, Kurt S Hansen on the other awea (windnet) list
gave an interesting URL to a web-cam monitoring the installation work: 
http://www.windpower.dk/news/webcam.htm
 
-- 
Claus  
http://www.windmission.dk
Denmark

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· Claus also referred to this site, which supplies PMGs for make-your-own
windturbines, and the electric motor (32 kW) and power electronics for a
make your own electric (or hybrid) car:

http://www.ecotools.net/english/ac_pm_generator.htm#t
http://www.ecotools.net/english/el_drive_set.htm#t

· I'm interested that the 32 kW power of the car-electric-motor is almost
the same as what I said in my:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2000/msg05115.html of October 6.

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sent on to Positive Futures by David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
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