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Default Wind turbines - can be DIY made?


Owain wrote:

Not much if you make a savonious rotor with an old oil drum.


Have you ever seen such a thing do more than power a lightbulb though?
Propellors beat a Savonius design every time, for any load bigger than
a spinning advertising sign

(yes, I've built several of both)