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April 18th 04, 04:56 PM

In article ,
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:35:15 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:08:04 +0100) it happened "Newsgroups"
wrote in hQjgc.160$Jc5.69@newsfe1-win:

Charging 12 V Lead -Acid batteries to 14.4 V , voltage limited by a home
made shunt controller .
System includes a 150 Watts wind generator , to support system during windy
(and usually sunless) periods
Now a wind generator would be cool, there are many windmils of huge size here,
one next to my house (100m or so), a BIG one that replaced 5 smaller ones...
It is on the coast, and it is always windy here...
How big is that thing?
JP

Have you seen the windmill "farm" west of Indio, California (on I10) ?

HUNDREDS of large windmill AC generators.

Is that the farm between LA and (around) Palm Springs? I drove
through there ~five years ago and was amazed at the size of the
wind-farm(s?) and the number of turbines that were stopped.

I believe the name of that farm is "San Gorgonio Pass" and has
about 3500 turbines. The "Altimont Pass" farm has another 3500
and an even larger one in "Tehachapi Pass" (5000). (there is a
common thread in these names ;-)

Altogether something like 1% of CA's electricity comes from wind.
That's impressive, though hardly scale able to 100%. The CA
mountain passes hardly indicate the viability of wind power in
the rest of the country/world.

--
Keith