1kW Wind Turbine with at wind farm

footage of a Zephyr AirDolphin 1kW wind turbine installed by siGEN Ltd for Scottish Power at Blacklaw Windfarm in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Windspeed is 15-20MPH and the turbine is producing 500-800w allong with more than 60 large turbines producing 2000000w!

You will note that you cannot hear either the small or large turbines over the idle engine noise of the high access platform.
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[Zitronekopf]

It's hard to tell, but does this one have just the standard 3 blades or does it have more?

[stuartsjg]

Hi,

The frame rate of the video makes it look like there are many blades when there are only 3.

Thanks,

stuart

[vicmeuk]

Superb I`m all for this Turbine Fun! One thing that needs done is.....PWM load dump .......

I think a dump is a waste of energy....I hope in the future we can utilise the waste power into something more useful too.

[stuartsjg]

Hi,

Thanks for the positive comment :)

The dump load is the intended energy usage. It was installed in a file store room to replace a wall heater which was used to keep the dampness away form the files.

Replacing it with a wind turbine removes the need for the wall heater.

Ironically, the wall heater was powered from Multi Megawatt windfarm anyway so really there is no carbon saving only another few kWh/PA for the national grid.

[leamyelectricinc1]

very cool.

[tatsuko1]

is this why our energy bills are going to shoot up

[HomeWindTurbines7]

It's a good looking turbine. Wow, very nice but that's a great deal of blade noise compared to my wind turbines on my roof are much quieter than that. Mine won't chop noise like that, even in the video with a 60mph wind storm.

[Gadabout96]

The noise you are hearing is the engine of the cherry picker that was used to install the turbine....

[proverb311031]

That small wind trubine need to have two sets of blades to get rid of that noise, plus it would produce twice as much energy!

[pondman27]

Noisy isn't it?

[lisboa6]

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how much costs each one of the other large turbines????????

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[lisboa6]

two off thoose 2kw (or just one) you have energy for everything

[SatoTM2]

zephry kW??? i think thats a 400watt