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RE: Wind Power
- Subject: RE: Wind Power
- From: "Benfield" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:05:20 -0000
>Personally, I'd rather pay a bit more and get one from
www.provenenergy.co=
m
(not that I have the money to buy one anyway). They have a 2.5kW turbine
sited on top of a school in Japan which survived 135mph winds in a typhoon
(whilst remaining operational)...=20
The Proven is a very good unit, however you are going to be paying around
=A37K to get it installed, and then get =A32.5K back from the government
as=
a
Grant. The Windsave unit (try www.windsave.com) costs =A31K plus vat and
yo=
u
get =A31K from the government as a grant. As this is a renewable energy
sou=
rce
it's only rated at 5% VAT, so as the Americans say, do the math. The total
cost for the system is =A350 plus installation. That sound cheap to me!
Windsave are also getting tie-in to various large companies (Scottish Power
being one), so the backup should be there as well.
JB
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