How much power can a 1kW wind turbine produce for your home? - Engadget

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• Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing about 1kW

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The article claims 200W average. The 1kW is to deal with gusts.

    That’s also assuming perfect mounting conditions.

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    • credo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, how much if I mount it? I have some experience hanging pictures.

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    • klankin@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      200Wh average per month, or 0.27Wh.

      Is my math wrong or is that absolute garbage? A desktop solar panel could compete

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  • bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Per hour

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Divided by not wind.

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you mean kwh/h?

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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sadly, wind power scales up MASSIVELY with blade size and height. The inverse makes it mostly non-viable for most homes.

  They need consistent, strong winds to function well. Power output scales with a cube of the windspeed (2x wind speed = 8x output) and the square of the blade length (2x length = 4x output) This means they need to be considerably above everything that slows the wind down. Once you’re 50m+ above the tallest trees, you might as well just scale up the blades and go grid scale, you’ve done the hard bit.

  Oh, and from the article, it’s 200W average, in perfect conditions. Conditions that almost no one can meet.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That does neatly explain why I never see small ones

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I see them from time to time, usually on sailing boats or coastal beach cabins where I presume they can slowly charge a battery over a long time with probably not much power production.

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• BevsDad@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Spending the money on solar will always beat wind turbines for small installations sadly.

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  • bisby@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Might be nice to have both, to diversify

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    • Dequei@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, but for the price of 1 turbine I can duplicate my solar setup.

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    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably wiser to just slap on a few more panels and add a battery for the same price

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’ll run the average consumer between $20,000 and $50,000 to toss up a wind turbine. Installing solar panels with the same energy production in mind is roughly $2,500 to $3,500, and that’s before incentives are calculated in.

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