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Chris220220
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Posted: 06:38am 07 Jun 2010

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I got off the train at Southbank and glimpsed down towards Southback/Docklands and spotted the ANZ building yesterday.

It has 6 impressive looking turbines on the roof. A curved blade VAWT set up.
Don't think they have been up very long.

Could not find a link to any photos to post. I'll try bring my camera to work and grab some shots for you all.

They were spinning in very little breeze, I was most impressed.
My HAWT is rotating in the breeze but not spinning

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Chris

RossW
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Posted: 10:46am 07 Jun 2010

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Chris220220 said I got off the train at Southbank and glimpsed down towards Southback/Docklands and spotted the ANZ building yesterday.

It has 6 impressive looking turbines on the roof. A curved blade VAWT set up.
Don't think they have been up very long.

I've seen them for the last 8 weeks at least, and initially I was impressed. However they seem to have spent more time shutdown than working. (I've often seen *ONE* spinning and the others statonary).

I might be cynical, but I think they're there mostly just eye-candy. Something to impress the locals with. I don't think they make enough between them to cover even the basic lighting needs of the building, much less anything else.

brucedownunder2
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Posted: 09:31pm 07 Jun 2010

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I think you'll find that one of our forum members supervised this project long time back . Remember Matt, the guy that gave us the 24v truck alternator build with Neo's some years back . I remember him telling me he won a contract to do some wind gennies on Melbourne buildings ..
Hope This info is correct,,

Bruce

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Posted: 01:53am 08 Jun 2010

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Hi All

I admit it is just symbolism at the moment but in the future it may be the survival technique we need. Power is inflating at a rate when carried into the future with added impetus of environmental and fiscal pressures far exceeding the last forty years.

I looked back over my old ledger and my power bill for the quarter for house and workshop was $8.35 in 1969 and $4 for a LP gas bottle, My bill now pre solar is $635 a quarter for electricity and over $100 for a bottle of gas. When this extrapolated into the future with inflation and fiscal and environmental pressures I hate to think where it is going to end, I wont be around to see another forty years but now is bad enough.

The symbolic placement of these turbines may ease the restrictions by council on the installation of simular units in suburbia.

I know a family in Victoria who has been on alternate energy for the last 30 years and Brian the property owner told me that he has saved enough money to pay the original purchase and development costs of the property three times over.
They have four PV panels and a small hydro system using a old bus generator 24 volt to run the house and two more panels to run the office.

The only running expense he has had is battery replacement on the house and these are pensioned off to the office where the current draw is less. He now has a solar HWS with a booster in the heater. He got the HWS on government subsidy so the whole installation only cost him $1400, the old one only lasted 30 years.

Here is a link posted by another member "Powerednut"to show it can and is being done now.

http://www.mtbest.net./

I hope the time will come that we see a small wind turbine and PV cells on every house and factory in the country.

We don't need to go back to the Horse and Candle existence of our forebears to be sustainable, just have a sensible use of new Tech things available now that will improve in the future.

I look forward to more leaders in the fight for sustainability.

All the best

Bob

Edited by VK4AYQ 2010-06-09

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