Controversy invariably surrounds the construction of wind turbines on land: they ruin the landscape, take up a lot of space and are unbelievably noisy. But France's NewWind has been developing aesthetically pleasing, tree-shaped turbines meant to run silently within cities, at ground level that might put arguments surrounding wind turbines to rest.
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Yeah...., 3.1 Kw with perfect conditions of strong steady wind. i.e. rarely that much.
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It's a silly ineffectual thing. Directly heating water with solar, and generating electricity with photovoltaic cells on your roof and south-facing wall makes far more sense.
Well, that's disappointing.
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