Kyros on 03 November 2008
it's much better for the environment and people.
That's the question. These local mini turbines need environmentally unfriendly batteries and they do not have much bang. 1.5kw, that's 1/24000 of this baby:
So instead of uglifying 24000 homes with these baby rotors that cost 10000$ EACH. Build ONE of the Siemens turbines off-shore. I am sure it costs less than 24000 *10000$ = 240 million dollar the small ones would cost.
And it makes more sense. In wind power scale is everything and what the OP posted is only a toy. An expensive toy that doesn't make sense economically. A toy that uses expensive and environmentally unfriendly batteries so it most likely doesn't make sense environmentally as well.
