[quote=jpinpb]Oh, has anyone considered wind? We get a lot of wind here. I think if I combine wind and sun, I’ll never have a SDGE bill ever again.[/quote]
I looked at it… Not cost effective… While we get good breezes… we don’t get the steady wind needed to make it pay off. (vs trade winds.) Also the tower size you need for traditional wind generators is prohibitive for most of suburbia. It works well on farms, and places with space. But since it’s reccomended that the turbine be 30′ above any nearby obstructions (other houses/buildings) it doesn’t fit within height restrictions for most urban areas.
There are some new, roof/house mounted wind turbines, with verticle axis – so they can be mounted lower… but it’s still pretty hard to find something that works in an urban/suburban setting.
I’m looking to see when the loopwing design gets more widely available… it only needs 3mph of wind to get it going… which is doable in some neighborhoods.
