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micro wind turbine
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StealthGen wind micro turbine
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A very small wind turbine designed to provide electric power to a home or
other local site for a variety of applications including:
- AC power
- DC direct supply to fluorescent lighting
- DC supply for water heating
- Battery charging (transport)
- Hybrid ground source heat pump systems
- Hybrid micro wind/ photovoltaic systems
Micro wind turbines are becoming rapidly more popular around the world.
Especially when coupled with solar modules,
they have already revolutionized living in remote homes off-the-utility
grid. The increasing popularity of micro wind turbines has also opened up
new applications previously considered off-limits to wind energy, such as
charging electric fences and powering remote telephone call boxes, once
the sole domain of solar cells.
Micro wind turbines have been around for decades for use on sailboats but
gained increasing prominence in the 1990s as their broader potential for
off-the-grid applications on land became more widely known. Over the next
decade they promise to play a major role as a distributed energy resource.
Related entry
• domestic
wind energy, fact and fiction
Related category
• WIND
POWER
• TURBINES
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