wind issues [RE-wrenches]

[Hugh Piggott]

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At 9:35 AM -0700 2/7/04, Matt Tritt wrote:
>The advantage of a testing facility over a manufacturers back lot is
>that down time because of mechanical or electrical problems can be verified
>and recorded instead of being glossed over. The problem with a test facility
>is that they aren't always located in a convenient location for one or
>another turbine company, especially when they are overseas.

I recommend you guys check out
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/klemen/Site_TOC.htm
http://www.wind-works.org/wulf/index.html
http://www.oceansolar.com/oceansolar/winex.html
http://www.nrel.gov/wind/verification_project_reports.html
People are doing this stuff.  They often don't provide simple answers 
and they don't get much thanks.

A few years ago I applied for UK government funding to do independent 
testing.  A guy came to visit me from the south of England and spent 
what seemed to me at the time a lot of money on travelling, just to 
tell me there was not a big enough industry to support this testing. 
He would have given me k$s to do a market survey to investigate the 
size of the industry.  Nothing for testing.  I am not a market 
researcher nor want to be particularly.

For a while in the USA year 2000, there was a discussion group 
awea-performance-stds set up to try to bring manufacturers together. 
I think it failed to achieve a consensus.

It is not a good situation where a manufacturer is forced to 
exaggerate performance or die in the market place because there is 
nothing to show up the fact that the competition is all being a bit 
sanguine with the data.  We need some reality in the wind business 
quite badly.  Then we can start to sell products that work.
-- 
Hugh
Off to Africa for 3 weeks on Monday 5th July
Scoraig Wind Electric
http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk/

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