treehugger.com — At 30 feet tall and 2 feet wide, the propeller-less design is bird-safe, relatively quiet -- it produces about 25 decibels of noise at five feet, roughly equivalent to the average noise of a residential neighborhood at night -- and doesn't take much breeze to get it spinning; it fires up at 8 mph. It costs $4000
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psygnisfiveSep 8, 2007
he said 1,500, not 15,000, firstly. Secondly, you try living in South Florida. You've got AC running nonstop, on top of everything else.
lettruthoutSep 9, 2007
The double-entry apparently was a digg glitch - not mine!!!
lettruthoutSep 9, 2007
It's new technology. How much did computers cost a few years ago? Because some people bought them they're cheaper now for the rest of us. The same will happen with sustainable energy generation. If you can't afford this now, consider solar thermal systems, they collect heat instead of electricity but they're sometimes cheaper. You need hot water right?In the mean time save your pennies, thank those that can take the plunge and keep learning. Try Home Power magazine...<a class="user" href="http://www.homepower.com/">http://www.homepower.com/</a>
mirror4uSep 9, 2007
lobby your government...(you will need plenty of cash)
painkillrSep 9, 2007
150W for your monitor? Dude just get a flat panel wtf. A 19" fp will pay for itself in 2 years.
painkillrSep 9, 2007
search for ted kennedy and wind farm
sremickSep 10, 2007
The chances that your PC actually uses 600W of that 600W potential power = 0.0000000001%Try hooking up a device that actually measures the power. I'd bet it's 150-250W
getisboySep 12, 2007
dude, you're obsessed
docringsNov 6, 2007
When these get down to under $2000, and sold/installed through Lowe's or Home Depot (as are the natural gas home generators requiring professional install), their popularity will really take off... most people don't even know this stuff exists...just have to see it browsing through the L/HD store, and be an impulse buy to "be green". Everyone who has bought a Prius or Civic hybrid in an attempt to "Go Green", even at some considerable expense, is a potential helix wind turbine owner... but the price still needs to come down further to really take off.
belcatFeb 13, 2009
Who said you'd only get one?Anyway, it's best to stay on the grid --- sell the power you don't need.
belcatFeb 13, 2009
You don't have one. The maximum you can get out of a breaker is 1800 watts, and legally devices are limited to 1500 watts. And there are definitely vacuum cleaners that work just as well and take less power.