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therobots927yesterday at 7:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

All the more reason for me to invest in a personal windmill.


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derrizyesterday at 8:47 PM

Sadly wind turbines don’t really scale down like PV panels. The energy produced by PV panels is a linear function of their surface area. For wind turbines, it scales with the square of the blade length.

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Rebelgeckoyesterday at 8:08 PM

YMMV depending on where you live but for MOST people you get more bang for your buck with solar+batteries

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