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But the government is still pushing rooftop micro turbines. If the maximum for turbines is £2,500, then the Windsave turbine will still be funded. This is at a time when the data coming in from buyers is showing a worst performance than even sceptics predicted. Not one buyer has posted on the web p...

There is a picture of a Windsave turbine on the moneysavingexpert forum that I asked for. It's about the best house siting I have seen for this turbine, but if you read what it's delivering and the average windspeed for the area you will be able to see how hard it is to save money with this machine....

Nathan, Do you never get tired of being a windslave to Windsave? The turbine does not furl, at least the ones on B&Q don't. The turbines in Windsave's video don't, and you haven't produced the video that you claimed existed in the chocolate teapots topic. The only film I have seen of a Windsave'...

The Warwick Trials have finally got a Windsave turbine to test. There is by far the most impressive photo of a Windsave turbine in action that I have seen on their site, it is really spinning up a storm. The report says that from Dec. 18th last year until Mar.3rd this year it has generated 10 kilowa...

Ted, Nathan is probably busy treating his bruised arse, which he gets kicked every time he pops up on a forum trying to defend the indefensible Windsave. I think the need for software on the Windsave turbine is because of the furling or lack of it (I still have never been told by anyone on any site ...

ajstone, Please tell those people to start making their claim for a refund, they are being conned. First it's not new software but a chainsaw they need to cut those trees down, then they need another story on their bungalow, then they need almost any wind turbine other than a Windsave, and even then...

Nathan It's amazing that when an ordinary buyer with an unsuitable site insists on having a turbine Windsave goes ahead, but when it is the chap from newsnight who is going to give the turbine a very public independent test, he is told that his property is unsuitable and he can't have one. Where's m...

I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to Flettner rotors, so I hope this will not be too boring for anyone who reads it. Anton Flettner used his idea of the rotor to build a wind turbine. It was for the time is was built (about 1926) a very large turbine. It was a hawt with four rotors instead of blades...

Just in case you haven't visited the site, I have to say that the real doers of DIY wind energy are found on www.fieldlines.com. There are some really knowledgable people there. I think it is because it is very American orientated, and there is a much larger pro rata amount of people off-grid there....

Do Windsave really expect us to believe they have orders for more than 15000 turbines? I have just read an article I found on the web from the BBC, dated Nov. 2004. In it Brian Wilson (ex labour energy minister and now frontmant fo Windsave) states that Windsave would be selling 500 turbines a week ...

Well, it's been a while and still no furling video from Nathan, not even a couple of still pictures. I really think that the Windsave turbine on sale at B&Q does not furl; go down to B&Q a give the tail a push, see if it folds bach - don't bother to ask the salesperson, they won't have a clu...

Nathan,

Many thanks, I would very much like to see the video of Windsave's furling action. I have to repeat that on their site they make no mention of furling to control the turbine; they only cite your inverter and some mechanical switch.

Nathan, You're a bit vague on the furling, how does the turbine furl, does it use springs or gravity or something else? I can't see any furling mechanism on the turbine. Yes, the UK has a lot of wind resourses, and tapping into it with your turbine is like getting oil out of a well with a teaspoon. ...

Nathan, you still haven't said if the turbine furls, and you should know you work for the company. If it doesn't furl, that tail will throw that half hundredweight generator and blades back in to the wind, cause it to swing from side to side. At a wind speed of 30m/s you will have over 50 hp blowing...

There's an article on roof top turbines in this month's Renewable Energy World at jxj.com. Windsave, Swift, and some overseas turbines are covered.