Renewable Energy

[csgray]

There are places on island other than South Point and Upolu Point that have strong steady winds; but you need to either be really close to the water or really high up the mountains. Kalapana Seaview has ripping good wind and so does the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. I think it is like the growing regions here, lots of different micro climates and widely varied conditions within a few miles of each other. When we lived in Seaview a neighbor had 3 little wind turbines, usually at least 2 were spinning pretty fast. The winds came from the ocean during the day and down from the mountain at night, except when the trades totally stopped, then we only got night winds.


Carol

[David M]

esnap - probably if I managed to learn how a couple of these meters worked I guess. Mostly, I just monitor my date to date battery voltage at this time. Although we transitioned from bought power to pv on a small system that kinda forced us to learn conservation etc, this system pretty well provides our needs (4.5 kw panels) and we definitely don't do without.

David

Ninole Resident

[Guest]

Jees! I bet you are cranking out 600 - 1000 KwH/month

[Hotzcatz]

http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_experiments.html

There, those folks are building wind generators out of all kinds of oddball stuff, building the generators to go with the propeller blades, too. And they give you detailed directions, online, for free. Plus it's fun to look at, what could be better?