Per our previous discussion about wind power, Home Power magazine's current issue contains a formula for estimating output from a wind machine based on "average annual wind speed". To wit
kWh per year = [rotor area (sq. ft)] x [annual average wind speed (mph)]^3 x 0.085 x EfficiencyFactor Find it discussed at http://www.homepower.com/article/?file=HP132_pg24_Mail_2 d. -- David William House "The Complete Biogas Handbook" |www.completebiogas.com| /Vahid Biogas/, an alternative energy consultancy |www.vahidbiogas.com | "Make no search for water. But find thirst, And water from the very ground will burst." (Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77) http://bahai.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090716/172284c1/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/