Easiest/cheapest windmill

[no spam]

After reading the thread about the windmill in some foreign land I got to
wondering.

How would you build the cheapest and/or easiest to get up and running
windmill?

Let's try not to get bogged down in how efficient the system is. IOW, even
if we only get 1% of the energy from the wind out of the system let's say
that's enough.

I'm thinking more of how you would work the breaking, gearing, and the like.

 

[Morris Dovey]

no spam wrote:
| After reading the thread about the windmill in some foreign land I
| got to wondering.
|
| How would you build the cheapest and/or easiest to get up and
| running windmill?
|
| Let's try not to get bogged down in how efficient the system is.
| IOW, even if we only get 1% of the energy from the wind out of the
| system let's say that's enough.
|
| I'm thinking more of how you would work the breaking, gearing, and
| the like.

Cheapest and easiest would be direct drive with no breakage.

 

[no spam]

| After reading the thread about the windmill in some foreign land I

| got to wondering.
|
| How would you build the cheapest and/or easiest to get up and
| running windmill?
|
| Let's try not to get bogged down in how efficient the system is.
| IOW, even if we only get 1% of the energy from the wind out of the
| system let's say that's enough.
|
| I'm thinking more of how you would work the breaking, gearing, and
| the like.

Cheapest and easiest would be direct drive with no breakage.

Maybe I should also have put something about it being able to keep a battery
charged w/o damaging anything.

 

[Mauried]

Don't worry about breaking. Just leave it out in the wind. It will
break. What? You mean brake? Oh.... never mind.

If your not worried about efficiency and just want something to go on
top of a roof to play with , then any of the VAWT types is the
easiest.