<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Mike Dawson <<a href="mailto:mike@paiwastoon.com.af">mike@paiwastoon.com.af</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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?<br>
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Then put that on the wiki? What do you think?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Sounds very useful. <br>Josh had posted a very interesting and useful comparison of costs a few days back and we can extend upon that.<br><br>regards<br>Arjun<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Even here in the capital Kabul - paperwork completed. line installed. Power comes one night every 2 days (if we're lucky).<br>
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Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:<br>
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our windmill in Arequita, Uruguay was on a 20 ft pipe, from the ground, tied to the side of the house.<br>
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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.<br>
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A neighbor had a similar setup, he would charge batteries for a fee.<br>
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the electricity came to a relay, and then to the battery.<br>
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It took us 4 years of paperwork to get electricity from the power line that was eventually installed by our farm.<br>
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Yama<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Arjun Sarwal<br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs">http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs</a><br>