Not exact matches
That per - watt price is comparable to the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, and these
smaller wind
turbines may be suitable for owners who,
because of shading or for other reasons, can not install a PV system.
The very
small Heartland Farmers group have admitted that at least one of them was happy to host
turbines, but
because the amount of money on offer was insuficient they became opponents of the project.
In fact, it is quite alarming to me,
because I have interviewed people who live near wind
turbines that you in Australia would probably consider to be quite
small and solitary — wind
turbines that are 100 kilowatts, even — and they are experiencing health problems, even people living near a 10 - kilowatt wind
turbine.
Because the amount of electrical energy produced by a wind
turbine varies nonlinearly with wind speed,
small changes in wind speed can result in much larger changes in output.
Currently, the price per kilowatt of
small - scale wind is much higher than that of utility - scale
turbines, and payback periods can be long, in part
because they are installed individually.
The authors simply dismissed actual reported field CFs as irrelevant and not valid
because they allegedly apply only to short, «low - power
turbines with
small diameters in slow - wind areas [less than 7 to 7.5 m / s annual winds]...» The authors, however, fail to explain why the higher power windmills with large diameter blades were not available before, if indeed this combination is wind energyís economic panacea.