Originally Posted by
AJSki2fly
I have been looking at a small helix sail driven turbine, only 1.3m tall, it will start to generate power with wind speed as low as 8mph and will continue to do so in a light breeze, it outputs 1-4kwh, so over 24 hours at 1kwh it would easily be enough to run our entire house. They are £1200 plus fitting, we are considering as a additional feed to our batteries in the winter primarily.
Is this the sort of thing you're considering? As a normal solar pv set up outputs 4kW (max permissible in a domestic setting I think) the cost/benefit ratio of your idea stacks nicely. And a lot less of an eyesore than solar panels. It'll be interesting to see how you get on.
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