The case for tiny wind energy – Catapult Design

By admin at 1 November, 2009, 1:01 am

These are the average wind speed and a number related to the general amount of time with no or low winds (the shape parameter), and this site does a much better job of explaining it than I can here – and they allow you to type in your … need to run appliances , and there will be losses in this conversion process – we expect it to be ~75% efficient – so we have to take this into account, giving us the ability to get about 25% of the energy embodied in the wind – not bad …

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The case for tiny wind energy – Catapult Design

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