"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:45:00 -0700) it happened Jim Thompson
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:35:15 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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On a sunny day (Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:08:04 +0100) it happened
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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.
Only seen pictures of it.
These look the same as the ones we have here.
There are plans to build a whole bunch out in the sea here, but I dunno
how
far that is from realization.

There are already a significant number of off-shore windmills in Denmark.
Or at least next to Denmark.