[Peripherals] windmills

[info at olpc-peru.info]

Here you have some data (taken from : WINDSPEED MEASUREMENT IN THE 
CITY... goggle this title and you will find it).

Best Regards,

Javier Rodriguez
Lima, Peru





This one from : Build it solar... (there you will find a lot of wind 
related data too).




Mike Dawson wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Interesting - I wonder if we can make some kind of comparison table / 
> tool for countries to try to preserve the knowledge....  like design 
> type - cost to build ($USD) - cost to maintain / year ($USD) output @ 
> different wind speeds as known?
>
>
> Then put that on the wiki?  What do you think?
>
>
> Even here in the capital Kabul - paperwork completed.  line 
> installed.  Power comes one night every 2 days (if we're lucky).
>
>
> Thanks/Regards,
>
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
>
> Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
>
>> our windmill in Arequita, Uruguay was on a 20 ft pipe, from the 
>> ground, tied to the side of the house.
>>
>> The charger probably was once a car dynamo.  The propeler was hand 
>> carved out of wood.  This one eventually broke down and I replaced it 
>> with little success.  I wanted eventually to make a smaller diameter 
>> propeller with more arms so as to have higher speed at same wind 
>> force, but didn't relly put effort into it.
>>
>> A neighbor had a similar setup, he would charge batteries for a fee.
>>
>> the electricity came to a relay, and then to the battery.
>>
>> It took us 4 years of paperwork to get electricity from the power 
>> line that was eventually installed by our farm.
>>
>> Yama
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/peripherals/attachments/20080513/5fc31031/attachment-0001.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: moz-screenshot-153.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 29339 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/peripherals/attachments/20080513/5fc31031/attachment-0003.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: moz-screenshot-152.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 20084 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/peripherals/attachments/20080513/5fc31031/attachment-0004.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: moz-screenshot-154.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 21239 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/peripherals/attachments/20080513/5fc31031/attachment-0005.jpg