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So I’ve been working at this for a while now, and been trying to make an easy-to-make, household material wind turbine. This is apparent from my previous post with the picture of wind efficiency, but the only difficulty I see (besides being able to spend time doing this) is acquiring a motor large enough and strong enough to create… enough energy. (enough is enough!)

So I’ve researched quite a bit and found that the wiring from old dryers or washers, and the motors from them can be quite useful. Seeing as though I don’t want to spend the time coiling thousands of small coils then going through a strenuous electrical engineering endeavor, I think that is the best option right now.

However, how many people have broken dryers/washers lying around? Not many I’m guessing, and it’s not that easy to break into one either. I might leave the option of getting a motor up to the one who decides to make the turbine.

Sure, depending on where you live, you might be able to just put a advertisement online on craigslist. I’ve got about 5 emails back just offering about 20 bucks for an old broken washer.

Anyway, here are some really crappy photos of what process I have so far.

just checking that this works up on twittz. i just added something that will automatically update twitter if i post.

it’s been so complicated with all this coding mess.

anyway, the photo section is up now, the fonts are bigger, and instead of Georgia, the font is at gill sans.  if you have ie, i recommend you switch to something else because… well, ie sucks.  also it makes everything you see on this page suck too.  might as well prevent people with ie from seeing it anyway.

there’s only two photos up on the photo site now, since i had to delete everything and revamp it with new things.  i’ll be working on a new template for this site too but for the meanwhile, this looks pretty nice, (it’s even a japanese design called karappo, which means “empty” in japanese).

im running this site on wordpress now, which is pretty nice since it’s nicely streamlined and such.  my photo site is still running on pixelpost because it’s still a nice organization tool.  over time ill start making my own programs and sites but for now it’s really convenient.

id like to fully lay this page out when i get to it with nice colors and stuff.  for the meanwhile, you can stare at my turbine design layout.  (mind, the colors aren’t going to show up right since it’s in cmyk, and the web only has limited colors.) nevermind, found closer colors and updated to RGB

-h

efficiency map for turbine designs

the website is now in short hiatus, just so i can polish it up and use it for more than just a photo portfolio, but also a blog and developing photo blog.