Subject: windy in Abilene....

From: Marge Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 20:41:30 GMT

Does anyone know if the proposed vertical axis wind turbine was ever
built in the Texas Panhandle?  I know there is supposed to be some sort
of study going on up there about wind.  I've been doing a keyword search
and not finding what I'm going after.
Marge
windy in Abilene....

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From: Paul Gipe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:45:15 GMT

Marge Wood <[email-masked]> writes

>and not finding what I'm going after.

Yes, it was installed several years ago. However, it's experimental and is
run only for tests. For reports on working wind turbines talk to Nolan
Clark at the USDA's Bushland experiment station and Vaughn Nelson at the
Alternative Energy Institute at WTSU in Canyon. Both know their stuff and
speak in plain English. Most of my knowledge about the fundamentals of wind
energy was gleaned from a term working with them.

Paul Gipe
Paul Gipe & Assoc.; 208 S. Green St., #5; Tehachapi, CA 93561;
ph: +805 822 9150; fax: +805 822 8452; [email-masked]/[email-masked]

Author of "Wind Power for Home & Business" (Post Mills VT: Chelsea Green
Publishing, June, 1993), and "Wind Energy Comes of Age" (New York: John
Wiley & Sons, March, 1995).
Re: windy in Abilene....