Re: [Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-19 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:13 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:07:28 -0900: Hi, [snip] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15novel.html?em The energy ball turbine appears to combine all the disadvantages of both types, with

Re: [Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-19 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Horace, THe electronics are the the least of the cost. The profit factor rules. Richard --- The energy ball turbine appears to combine all the disadvantages of both types, with none of the advantages. Yes, and the price tag on all of them is incredible. It must be that most of the

Re: [Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Yes, and the price tag on all of them is incredible. Indeed. I don't know what you pay per kWh; but, it's only about ten cents here. If you can only expect 2000 kWh per year, the $200 in cost reduction results in a

Re: [Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-19 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Terry, Some local power is produced by gas turbines and is both expensive to produce and costly to maintain. Have a friend, ex GE guy that does some of the service work.He was born in a town near Horace. Looking down the road it appears the small packaged nuke units will replace the gas

Re: [Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
There are some excellent niche markets for small wind turbines, such as deep water buoys and other platforms at sea. The are similar to solar cell installations used along isolated highways for emergency telephones, and for fog monitoring stations on mountain roads. People developing

[Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-18 Thread Horace Heffner
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15novel.html?em http://tinyurl.com/apghmz Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/

Re: [Vo]:More on rooftop turbines ...

2009-02-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:07:28 -0900: Hi, [snip] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15novel.html?em The energy ball turbine appears to combine all the disadvantages of both types, with none of the advantages. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk