battery-less VAWT -Pacwind[RE-wrenches]

[Nick Lucchese]

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Not that it adds any proof that it's a viable product or not but I 
did see one spinning quite fast on a recent road trip last month. 
Unfortunately I did not get my wife to stop the car but it is located 
about 150-200 miles north of Vegas on HWY 95 at a gas station. It was 
the Delta 1 model about 40' high. I was so excited it was like seeing 
Santa Claus. Or at least that's how I saw it in my mind. At the very 
least I can claim that it spun very fast and stable (while driving by 
@ 35 mph). Till then I thought the only one that was in use was Jay 
Leno's. Maybe it's part of their R&D and was given to the station 
because of it's high profile?

Nick A Lucchese


>I agree completely Hugh,
>
>I need to add that if Pac Wind, or any maker of VAWT's, is able to 
>substantiate through independent testing that their equipment 
>functions as claimed, great! If they aren't part of some kind of 
>multi-level marketing, great!
>
>I think many of us would love to have access to to a viable small 
>vertical, but they really need to prove, without question, that they 
>are worth buying, and that they hold together in rough service for a 
>reasonable period of time. There has been an extreme amount of hype 
>pertaining to these machines, but who has actually gotten one 
>(besides the freebies to high profile celeb's)? Where is the data on 
>performance, and I mean _verified_ performance data? I attempted to 
>contact people many times at PacWind, and never once was the call 
>returned. The one time I got through (during business hours), I got 
>someone who said that "they are all gone for the day", and that they 
>didn't know anything about the products. This isn't hearsay, it's a 
>fact.
>
>I still have an open mind about VAWT's, and would very likely be 
>happy to sell one that works. Up to this point, PacWind has been 
>evasive, secretive and non-forthcoming concerning their products, 
>especially to those of us in the existing mainstream HAWT world. If 
>that all changes, cool.
>
>Matt
>
>Hugh Piggott wrote:
>
>>
>>At 12:47 -0500 31/1/08, Nicholas Ponzio wrote:
>>
>>>  I'm not holding my breath, but I would like
>>>to caution people about spreading unverified rumors like this. It just
>>>makes everyone look bad.
>>
>>
>>I tend to be more impressed by Kelly.  Let's tell it like it is. 
>>What looks bad is when nobody mentions that they don't think this 
>>stuff works, and well-meaning people go ahead and try to use it. 
>>Then everyone looks bad.
>>
>>Let's face it - if there were good experiences out there with 
>>roof-mounted VAWT turbines, one of us would have heard about them 
>>by now.
>
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