Jan
05
Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine
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- ISBN13: 9781898049272
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
As the true costs of fossil fuels are revealed, the ancient art of windpower is making a steady comeback, and many countries are promoting wind energy generation as part of a drive toward a sustainable future. Yet many environmental enthusiasts prefer a more do-it-yourself approach. Windpower Workshop provides all the essential information for the individual wanting to build and maintain a windpower system for their own energy needs…. More >>
Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine
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5 Comments
January 5th, 2010 at 7:04 am
Excellent book, good information and useful information if you are planning on building a wind turbine.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 5th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I’m not an electrician or engineer, but I consider myself fairly intelligent and didn’t mind the challenge of learning something new. Unfortunately this was not the book for me. While Piggot does an admirable job of laying out the basics of how a wind turbine functions and the components involved, this is not a start-to-finish guide to building a wind turbine. For example, there is a chapter dedicated to constructing (or modifying an existing) generator/alternator and a chapter on constructing an appropriate tower, but literally no information on how to mount your generator to the tower. There’s information on what you need from the electrical controls to prevent battery damage, but no information on where you could get these controls or how to build them.
If you’re interested in getting into wind power and have a solid engineering foundation, I’m sure this book would be helpful. For everyone else, you might want to start elsewhere.
Rating: 3 / 5
January 5th, 2010 at 11:42 am
This book is really comprehensive. It covers nearly everything you need to build a small windgenerator from scratch including security measures to protect the wind turbine in harsh weather. It makes a complete and excellent start for anybody who wants to get involved with wind energy.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 5th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I found this book to be very informative. Not all of my questions were answered, but I now feel that I have a basic grasp of how to design and build my own scrapyard wind turbine. If you are interested in this I highly recommend this book for your collection of reference materials.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 5th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I bought this book as a back-up to Paul Gipe’s extensive “Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business.”
Another engineer in the office became interested in this for when he retires in Guana. He and I looked at the book together and it is interesting for the hands-on appeal. The author shows how to you scrounged equipment to construct a wind machine. Hugh Piggott has a lot of experience with building these machines so this is the place to start if you’re on a desert island all alone and want to create your own power.
Paul Gipe’s book is an excellent reference for those wishing to be good buyers of wind machines. Hugh Piggott shows you how to build your own.
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Rating: 4 / 5