Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine
by Hugh Piggott, John Blow
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Author: Hugh Piggott, John BlowEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01
ISBN: 1898049270
Number of pages: 159
Publisher: Centre for Alternative Technology
Book Reviews of Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine
Book Review: Good information but dense and not complete
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Summary of Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine
As the financial and environmental costs of fossil fuels continue to rise, 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 people wanting to build and maintain a windpower system for their own energy needs.
Hugh Piggott runs his own succesful windpower business in Scotland.
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