"Dave Fawthrop" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:37:56 +0100, "nightjar" nightjar@insert my surname
here.uk.com wrote:

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|"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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| "nightjar .uk.com" nightjar@insert my surname here wrote in message
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| "dg" wrote in message
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| ... How much would the parts be?
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| Traditionally, you use the generator from an old bus and make the rest
| from other bits of scrap.
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| If it's so easy I wonder why aren't people doing it ... or perhaps they
| are and are keeping quiet about the results :-)
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|Generating electricity from wind turbines is not difficult. Generating it
|when you need it is more of a problem. The B&Q turbines rely upon mains
|electricity as a backup. Using the mains supply as the secondary source
used
|to be a breach of most domestic electricity supply contracts and selling
|domestically generated electricity to the generating companies was once
|quite unheard of.

Worse synchronising the turbine output with mains AC at the correct
frequency, phase etc, then adjusting the phase angle to feed power back
into the mains is **VERY** **VERY** difficult. If you do not understand
what I said above it is more or less impossible.

That was the primary reason why it was not permitted when I was in the
electricity supply industry. Loss of revenue was a secondary consideration,
although not a very important one in the days of Nationalisation. We were
capped at 2% profit and the main problem facing the accountants was making
sure we didn't go over that. They even cut prices to stay within the cap,
upon occasion.

Colin Bignell