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#[http://humdingerwind.com/windbelt.html Turbine-less wind generator]- how does it work?
#[http://www.prairieturbines.com/purchase.htm 5 kW wind turbine kit- under $6k in parts, without tower] . This appears to be the most affordable package available anywhere for serious wind energy production.
 
==Wind Power with Hydraulic Transmission==
Back in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_golden_age golden age of the Dutch], their booming economy was powered by wind in all sorts of incarnations (see article from Low-tech Magazine - [http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/10/history-of-industrial-windmills.html Wind powered factories: history (and future) of industrial windmills]). Wind provided a lot of energy but one big problem was that this energy had to be used at the time that it occurred, with very little ability to store it for later use. Now in the 21st century, we can use hydraulic implementations to solve this problem. As builders of the [[GVCS]], we are quite familiar with hydraulic systems from projects such as [[LifeTrac]]. A hydraulic transmission can also be used for stationary applications and powerd by wind. The "mill" that harvests the wind is coupled to water pumps, generating hydrostatic pressure. With a storage reservoir (water tank at higher level), this energy is available at any time, powering hydraulic motors.
* Patent (granted 2008): [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=skGtAAAAEBAJ&dq=Wind+turbine+with+hydraulic+transmission "Wind turbine with hydraulic transmission"]

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