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Old 06-12-08, 04:49 PM   #3
Letum
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My one-man jury is still out on micro-turbines.

It's a piss poor economy of scale.
After you have mined, smelted, manufactured, assembled, transported, errected and
maintained the mini-turbines and all their parts how long does it take until you have
more energy than you started with?
With such a low out-put to mass ratio on these things; it must be a few years at least.

Wind turbines either have to be small, but very simple and energy efficant to make or
very large if they are anything but eco-vanity instalations.
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