Hippyshopper founder Adam (now of thegreenguy) has a piece in the Guardian discussing the problems with wind turbines not being ready for prime time yet. Not the big farm ones, of course, they're flying along. It's the small house-sized ones that aren't doing so well yet - practically nothing in some cases. "I've had my second one for three months now - the first one was vibrating the house too much - and so far it's powered one energy-saving bulb for around three hours a day," Donnacadh McCarthy says." It's created a total of 1.6 kilowatts, which isn't even 20p worth of electricity." Ouch! Any Hippyshoppers have a wind turbine? Anybody having any luck with them? [GT]
Renewable energy runs into turbulence on the home front [via thegreenguy]
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