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Sector67 Team
Apr 27, 2012, 9:13:44 AM4/27/12
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See below for an opportunity to learn how to build wind turbines in Stevens Point. Course looks like it's ~5 days long, cost is $820, please note that you go home empty-handed at the end of the class.
There's lots of free information out there on these turbines:
And the original source of this turbine design:
Chris
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From: Alex DePillis <al...@depillis.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Subject: Build a wind turbine in Stevens Point (or at Sector 67?)
I thought this workshop might be of special interest to people you know. Right now it's scheduled for Stevens Point. Perhaps people would want to go up there together.
A friend wrote:
The Dans (Bartman and Fink) and co. are scheduled to teach their famous week-long workshop here at the Northwind shop June 5-10. If we don't get more people by May 4, we have to cancel. Nobody wants that, now do they??
In case you're not familiar with the Dans and their work (yeah, right...), here's their link: http://www.otherpower.com/ And here is the link to sign up for the course through the MREA: https://www.midwestrenew.org/civicrm/event/info?id=236&reset=1
It is worth every penny. Guaranteed to be a blast. And yes, you can camp for dirt cheap.
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Visit the web sites and/or contact my friend:
Jenny Heinzen
Small Wind Training Coordinator
715-592-6595 ext. 108
jen...@midwestrenew.org
All the best,
From: Alex DePillis <al...@depillis.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Subject: Build a wind turbine in Stevens Point (or at Sector 67?)
I thought this workshop might be of special interest to people you know. Right now it's scheduled for Stevens Point. Perhaps people would want to go up there together.
A friend wrote:
The Dans (Bartman and Fink) and co. are scheduled to teach their famous week-long workshop here at the Northwind shop June 5-10. If we don't get more people by May 4, we have to cancel. Nobody wants that, now do they??
In case you're not familiar with the Dans and their work (yeah, right...), here's their link: http://www.otherpower.com/ And here is the link to sign up for the course through the MREA: https://www.midwestrenew.org/civicrm/event/info?id=236&reset=1
It is worth every penny. Guaranteed to be a blast. And yes, you can camp for dirt cheap.
<==
Visit the web sites and/or contact my friend:
Jenny Heinzen
Small Wind Training Coordinator
715-592-6595 ext. 108
jen...@midwestrenew.org
All the best,
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Alex DePillis 1232 Rutledge Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 (608) 259-9255 (413) 230-7524 cell |
Chris Meyer
Director
Sector67
608-241-4605
http://sector67.org
2100 Winnebago St
Madison, WI 53704
Peter Novotnak
Apr 27, 2012, 1:44:05 PM4/27/12
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I was going to leave a long, poorly informed, slashdot-style snarky comment but I will not. But I'm not going either...
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Jim Rasmussen
Apr 27, 2012, 1:55:42 PM4/27/12
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I was going to write a long poorly informed comment on how we should
make our own wind turbine blades out of polyurethane, so that they
would flex in high winds and not self destruct, but then I realized
that it would make much more sense to build the Mast of polyurethane
instead. That way, it would auto feather by bending over in high winds
and then return to normal when the wind died down. It would also make
it much safer to maintain. You could simply bend it over with a
winch, to work on it, rather than having to climb all the way up in
the air, which can be dangerous.
Jim Rasmussen
>> *Alex DePillis*
make our own wind turbine blades out of polyurethane, so that they
would flex in high winds and not self destruct, but then I realized
that it would make much more sense to build the Mast of polyurethane
instead. That way, it would auto feather by bending over in high winds
and then return to normal when the wind died down. It would also make
it much safer to maintain. You could simply bend it over with a
winch, to work on it, rather than having to climb all the way up in
the air, which can be dangerous.
Jim Rasmussen
Grant Dobbe
Apr 27, 2012, 3:01:41 PM4/27/12
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