Here’s an approach to small wind that’s trying to raise money via crowd funding. To anyone considering this investment, I invite you to do the math associated with the customer’s cost of energy.
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Small Wind Is Dead, But Some Don’t See It That Way
WindStream is a small wind concept I once promoted; see pic at left depicting a version of the product they eventually hybridized it with solar PV. It’s built around an extremely important set of facts, which its founder, Dan Bates …
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Small Wind Energy Has Limited Applications, But Won’t Go Away
As the legendary mandolinist Sam Bush puts it in this classic: Same ol’ river Same ol’ sea Same ol’ waters rushing over me
Renewable Energy Products that Cause Embarrassment To the Industry
One of the challenges facing solar and wind energy is capacity factor, i.e. the ratio of the total energy generated by a device to the total energy that it’s potentially capable of generating (multiplied by 100, to make a percentage). …
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Small Wind Has No Future
I thought I would reproduce a conversation I’m having with an entrepreneur in small wind in the UK: Entrepreneur: (My company is) based in the UK and UAE has designed an onshore wind turbine (15kW and 50kW) that has a …
Bucking the Tide in Small Wind
Although I’m bearish on small wind generally, I have to say that I’m impressed with the work that my friend Dan Bates, CEO of WindStream Technologies, has done in this space; I hope you’ll check out the video linked below. …
Brian McGowan, the Ultimate Renewable Energy DIY Guy
I keep meaning to take an extra day during one of my excursions to the East Coast and hang out with Brian McGowan, hands-on renewable energy guy extraordinaire, who lives near Philadelphia. Pictured left is a wall of his garage; …
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Inc. Magazine Picks Up On Small Wind Rising Star "WindStream"
Here’s an article from the online version of Inc. Magazine written by a young man who somehow picked three cleantech companies and heralded them as “the hottest on the planet.” I came across this because one of them happened to …
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