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Portable wind turbine


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For me, living in places with enough sustained wind to produce electricity would be turnoff.
On the other hand, I'm happy to search for locations with enough sunshine to feed my solar panels :)

Mark

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I've never seen this particular one in action, but I've seen an Air Breeze, a Sunforce, and an Air X. I have to agree with Sibernut. The "whizzing" sound is almost more obnoxious than a genny. I know with the others too that they claim to produce energy with as little as 4-5mph winds, but the 'trickle' at those air speeds is practically worthless. They require much higher wind speeds to actually produce to their rated capacity.

 

For a backpacker I could see where it might come in handy, but it would certainly be cheaper and lighter to pick up a flexible solar panel and small storage battery to charge your cell or gps.

 

Novel design though.

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