An interesting approach to bird safe wind power 5

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   Chris Schults Posted 9:11 am
   10 Apr 2007

   What about the flying cars?This is cool, but won't the personal air vehicles run into them?
   
   Look out! It's a media shower!

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   GreyFlcn Posted 9:33 am
   10 Apr 2007

   YeapThere's a couple companies doing stuff like this apparently.
   http://www.logicalscience.com/technology
   
   http://peswiki.com/index.php/Congress:Top_100_Technologie ...
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   But apparently they got it inside a nice little "micro mill" model which could be bought be individual business buildings.

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   GreyFlcn Posted 9:43 am
   10 Apr 2007

   Wow, I just realizedI just realized
   
   $10,000 for a 4000W system.
   Sure it's a bit much
   But then again thats 2000 households for a relative price of $5 dollars each.
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   2500$/KW though.  So not that useful for industrial scale.
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   But yeah, thats suprisingly practicle.

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   GreenWeevil Posted 12:08 pm
   10 Apr 2007

   Come togetherI don't know how much power is required for a household or business. If the floating wind-power thing produces reliable, consistent energy, is it possible that several neighbors could pool their resources and purchase one? How long before it pays for itself?

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   Engineer Posted 9:38 am
   12 Apr 2007

   Not quite...4,000W = forty 100W light bulbs (or more ecologically correct, 173 23W CFL's)
   2,000 houses could only get about 1/2 of a small night light each.
   Not that it isn't a cool device!
   
   Common sense is an oxymoron...

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