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MacGyver

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Posted: 03:47am 12 Dec 2009

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On the old Homegrown Power Web site, there was a VAWT down in the lower right-hand corner. It was built, I think, in some Australian city.

Anyone have a link to it? I was interested in studying the design and now it's gone!

Thanks.

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Posted: 07:08am 12 Dec 2009

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http://www.thebackshed.com/windmill/articles/TownsvilleStran dWindmill.asp

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Posted: 08:11pm 12 Dec 2009

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Yup! That's the one.
Thanks!

Unfortunately, the streaming video was the main thing I wanted to watch on that page and as it turns out, the video is whacked! Bummer.Edited by MacGyver 2009-12-14

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Posted: 03:24am 13 Dec 2009

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What do yoy mean, video whacked out??
It all plays fine for me.
It must be another apple gremlin your end.

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Posted: 02:44am 14 Dec 2009

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Yeah, there seems to be something to that. I don't have trouble with any of the European videos or actually anything else. The only trouble I have on the computer stems from down under.

That's okay, I was able to view a video clip from You-Tube and all I was interested in was the orientation of the center air-diverting section.

I'm going to design and build a helical savonius to be used in places where neighbors otherwise complain about noise, bird vaporization and the possibility of flying parts. The Savonius-type will be a much slower, quieter, drag-type machine. I'm just accumulating ideas at this point.

It'll pump air like all my other toys, by the way! This design will use a shaft-mounted swash plate to drive one or more permanently-mounted, double-acting piston air pumps anchored to the tower just beneath the drive array.

Thanks, everyone, for the input.

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Posted: 05:07am 14 Dec 2009

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MacGyver said Yeah, there seems to be something to that. I don't have trouble with any of the European videos or actually anything else. The only trouble I have on the computer stems from down under.

Hmmm Bloody Kangaroos chewing on the phone lines again.
They can smell you apple users from miles away.
Pesty little buggers!

Or is it our power travels in an anitclockwise direction down the wire.

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