Wind and Windspinners: A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Wind-Electric Systems

by Michael A. Hackleman

Book Overview

Contains everything you need to know about building Savonius rotor (S - Rotor) wind generator. The S-Rotor is easier to construct than a standard windmill since your generator is at the base of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0915238020
• ISBN13: 9780915238026
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Peace Press
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This Book Another Example of Squelched Information

Probably the reason this book is unavailable is because, at the time of it's authoring, 1974, the back to the land movement was just beginning. Refugies of the sixties' battle with the establishment over the Vietnam War, and cival rights, were just beginning to flee to a simpler, hopefully better life in the country. Every idea in this book was intended for people already living on the land (thus the 'nuts and bolts approach' subtitle). The book is total How To, since an exhaustive search by Hackleman could find only two manufacturers of "Windspinners," in France. The big money of the day was being invested, and still is, in the ridiculously, by comparison, inefficient propeller designs.