The Canadian fabricator, DAF-Indal, installed a second generation 50 kW Darrieus turbine in 1981 at the the Romero Overlook Visitor … Read more
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NREL’s Owen Roberts reports that FloWind’s prototype 100 kW Darrieus wind turbine installed in early 1982 is still standing inoperative … Read more
Thilo Wirth visited the Grevenbroich test site west of Cologne 24 September 2023. He found that Agile Wind Power’s test … Read more
Agile Wind Power is removing its giant VAWT from the Grevenbroich test site. The dismantlement follows the second failure of … Read more
In 1997, Canadian meteorologist Jim Salmon reported that a 50 kW DAF-Indal turbine at Christopher Point, on the southern tip … Read more
Note: The following is an excerpt from my 2009 book Wind Energy Basics Revised: A Guide to Home- and Community-scale … Read more