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Oct 01, 2011

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Sep 14, 2011

Being a Wind Tech isn’t just about having an aptitude for mechanics and electricity.  It’s also not just about being able to brave the heights and extreme elements.  It’s not about the solitary work and time spent traveling away from home.  It’s not just about the good money you make, or the large number of advancement opportunities. It’s about all of these things sure, but really it’s about so much more!

In my opinion, it’s about being involved in a 100% positive position in life.  Someone employed in a “green collar wind job” should be beaming with pride.  Not only are you benefiting yourself and your company for the work you do, you also benefit the environment and all of humanity.  I know it’s a cheesy statement, but it’s absolutely true.  There aren’t many jobs out there you can say that about. The Wind industry is very unique in the sense that greed is welcome.  As long as safety is a high priority, the bigger, better, faster, and stronger the Wind Industry becomes, the better for everyone!  

There is no mass destruction of land like coal mining requires; no chance of inflicting cancer on local communities such as natural gas (and again coal) has been blamed for.  No water pollution, no transportation of raw materials, and no threat to the environment in the way that nuclear, gas, and coal all contribute to.  If you want a real eye opener, do a little research on the fresh water crisis we’re heading for.  Wind needs no water to produce energy… only wind.   

Hopefully you are inspired by this information and you will take your roll in the developing wind community seriously.  The Wind Industry is relatively small right now but is growing at a furious pace.  A major goal that has been established but the US Department of Energy is that 20% of the United States energy production will be provided by Wind by the year 2030.  The current pace is putting us ahead of schedule.  What’s so exciting about this, like most new technologies, advancements in efficiency and cost effectiveness comes with time.  There are certainly challenges to hit this goal, but most expect to keep pace.  Expect big things out of wind and be proud to be a part of this historic boom.  The wind industry is currently aiding the evolution of human kind in ways never seen before.  It’s about low cost energy, and a positive impact to the planet, and everyone on it.  Thank you for doing your part!                  


Sep 14, 2011

Advancements in technology these days are moving at a break neck pace.  We hear about the next new thing every day, like smart phones, tablets, 3D televisions, electric cars, or outposts on Mars.  Ok maybe we are a few years off from living on Mars but it won’t surprise me when we get there. 

The Wind Industry is no exception to this technological boom.  Scientists and Engineers worldwide are working on projects that will advance and even change the face of wind power altogether.  Some of these current advancements are simple, small changes in the system to ring out better efficiency.  Others however are huge leaps forward that are changing industry standards and growing their edge over other energy technologies.  Keep in mind that the Wind Industry is in its teenage adolescent years and it’s going through a lot of changes and growing fast.  It’s important to be in the know but it would certainly be a full time job trying to keep up with all of these industry advancements.  It may seem daunting but there are some good tricks to keeping current. 

There are a great number of websites dedicated to the Wind Industry that can be a great source for learning trends.  Navigating through that web however can really be a big time commitment that most of us just don’t have.  I’ve recently learned a great way to streamline this process saving loads of time and I only have to navigate to one place.  Do you know what an RSS feed is?  This is the key to my savvy surfing.  I log into my RSS feed every day and all of the articles from the websites I have subscribed to are waiting for me to read.  Making the internet work for me!  A one stop current events shop that is customized completely to my interest of Wind.  If you are ready to take advantage of these time saving methods you should do a little research first.  If you do an internet search for RSS feeds and you’ll get a good deal of detail on how to get started.  I personally use the “Google Reader” for my RSS feeds.   

Once you get going be careful because it can be addictive.  My reader populates at least 100 articles a day with Wind Energy current topics and other various interests like living on Mars.  Some I skip, some I save and some I will email to colleagues that I know would be interested.  Bonus Point… This makes me appear smart and informed.  Which really in the end, isn’t that the goal?  The Wind industry is still young and being in the know is a must if you want to be one of the many who will bring this industry into the mainstream.  The opportunity is there.  


Jul 27, 2011

The future of renewables may well be captured in the concept of hybrid wind and solar systems.


Jul 27, 2011

KoolPower is an online energy platform that serves the global energy industry. Our core services include networking, buy/sell, online exhibition and industry insight which are customized to cater the marketing and product procurement needs of energy industry enterprises. 

KoolPower is always dedicated to increase public awareness of green energy business both nationwide and worldwide. 


Jul 14, 2011

Renewable solar energy and in particular wind turbine systems attracts a wide range of eager audience that wants to learn more about wind energy or benefit from this freely available source of renewable energy.

Any potential renewable solar energy enthusiast, wind energy and in particular wind turbines, regardless of their background and knowledge will lack information on this subject.

There are areas where wind turbine fanatic don’t even know how wind energy is formed. Being one of those renewable solar energy fanatic and in particular wind turbines, I took a very challenging role at one point in my life and moved forward from being a wind turbine technology follower to becoming a participant in the building and testing my own wind turbine ideas.

This forward move helped me accomplish and acquire more knowledge and earn more than I have expected or hoped for. The knowledge I have acquired from hands on experience that went on from paper design of the first wind turbine to actually sourcing locally available material needed in building my own wind turbine.

It was a great challenge when assembling together the wind turbine parts, as I had literally seen and experienced how to solve each and every problem encountered during assemble time.

The main advantage of designing and building your own wind turbine is that you are in control of what you want to achieve as an end product. Three bladed wind turbines need 10 m/s average wind speed. Many locations have wind speed lower than the average wind speed. That’s why you are in control of the end product if you design and build your own wind turbine.

That’s why the renewable solar energy blog has been created, it has been written to help renewable solar energy enthusiast grasp the basic idea about wind energy and wind turbines in a simple way that can be understood.


Jul 11, 2011

 


2 KW Vertical Wind Turbine (Mast mounted maglev)
  • More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-vawt.html
  • Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
  • Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & 8 meter free standing mast.
  • Has CE Certificate/ CEC 
  • Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
  • 10 Year Warranty  

3 KW Vertical Wind Turbine (Mast mounted Maglev) 
  • More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-vawt.html
  • Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
  • Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & 8 meter free standing mast.
  • Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
  • 10 Year Warranty

5 KW Vertical Wind Turbine  (Mast mounted Maglev) 
  • More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-vawt.html
  • Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
  • Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & 8 meter free standing mast.
  • Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
  • 10 Year Warranty

10 KW Vertical Wind Turbine  (Mast mounted Maglev)
  • More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-vawt.html
  • Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
  • Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & 8 meter free standing mast.
  •  Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
  • 10 Year Warranty

GES Horizontal Wind Turbines that are mast mounted on either an 8 meter or 12 meter mast:

300 Watt Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

600 Watt Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

1 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

2 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

3 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warrant 

5 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

10 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

20 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty

30 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
10 Year Warranty

50 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine 
More Info: http://masteringgreen.com/ges-hawt.html
Pricing: troy@masteringgreen.com
Pricing includes: Turbine generator, charge controller, inverter, & free standing mast.
Has CE Certificate/ CEC Approval Built in our IS0 9001 Facility
10 Year Warranty










Non-Packaged Wind Turbines: 

Maglev flat surface mounted vertical axis wind turbines (Can be roof or platform mounted as well.)

These vertical axis wind turbine systems that are platform or flat surface mounted are the only ones on the market today that can be UL certified (Met Labs) and are CEC approved (California Energy Commission)  For these MagLev Vertical Axis Wind Turbines we DO NOT sell the ancillary equipment such as wind directors, transformers or cabling needed to complete installation. 

These maglev vertical axis wind turbines are meant to be flat surface mounted, platform mounted or ground mounted. See our website for illustrations of this -  http://masteringgreen.com/projects.html  We do not recommend our maglev vertical axis wind turbines be installed on a poles or mast mounted.  These turbines also require wind directors to reach rated output. 

·      2.5 kW -  http://masteringgreen.com/25-kw-vertical-wind-turbine.html
·      5 kW -     http://masteringgreen.com/5-kw-wind-turbine.html
·      10 kW -   http://masteringgreen.com/10-kw-wind-turbine.html
·      25 kW -   http://masteringgreen.com/25-kw-wind-turbine.html
·      50 kW -   http://masteringgreen.com/50-kw-wind-turbine.html
·      100 kW - http://masteringgreen.com/100-kw-wind-turbine.html
·      150 kW - http://masteringgreen.com/150-kw-wind-turbine.html
·      250 kW - http://masteringgreen.com/250-kw-wind-turbine.html

For Pricing: Email troy@masteringgreen.com


What are wind directors, and why are they needed?
Wind Directors are needed to help push more air mass into the vertical axis wind turbine, to reach its rated output. The span of the directors will be determined by the amount of energy needed to be produced and wind conditions of your location. - More info. below.

How to calculate wind director sizing for our maglev vertical axis wind turbines: 
Take the total amount of rated wattage for the generator divided by 39. 
For example on the 5 kW = 5000 watts

Take 5000 divided by 39 = 128.20 total swept area needed. If you had 6 directors, then each director would need 21.36 square feet.

It's safe to say a director in that formula can be 5' X 4' because the extra area needed would be the area of the blades themselves. If you are using 4 directors then use 5' X 6'

You can use the same formula throughout the wind turbine line by substituting different watt sizes.

You can see an example of a wind director on our website:  http://masteringgreen.com/projects.html

Costs for Wind Directors used on our maglev vertical axis wind turbines: 
Costs can differ significantly depending on type of materials used.  Cost per square foot is going to be between $2.00 - $9.00 per square foot. The lower end using Lexan and Honeycomb on the higher end

How many wind directors you need is dependent on average wind speeds, topography and placement. You will need to contact a structural engineer to determine wind load and structural integrity of your building.


Warranty:
All units come standard with a 10 year factory warranty and can be upgraded to 15-20 and 25 years for a nominal fee

SHIPPING, DELIVERY & PAYMENT TERMS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
2.5kw, 5kw, 10kw and 25 kW Units  -- 100% of funds with order. 
25 kw, 50 kw, 100kw, 150kw, 250kw and 500 kW Units --  60% deposit and 40% when ready to ship.

Delivery Times: 
Maglev Flat Surface Mounted Turbines: 

Up to 120 days for delivery as this time depends upon what other orders are in front of yours.

Delivery Times: 
GES Vertical and Horizontal Turbines: 

45 - 60 Days for delivery.

NOTE: (We do not accept bank credit; we accept wire transfers and cashier’s check)

International Shipping for Ground or Flat Surface Maglev Turbines:
To Calculate international shipping:  
Port of Ft. Lauderdale, FL - U.S.A. to your destination.   
(Unit Weights and Sizes are below)

International Shipping for GES Vertical and Horizontal Turbine Packages:
To Calculate international shipping:  
Port of Long Beach, CA, - U.S.A. to your destination.  

NOTE: We cannot quote shipping costs until you decide what you are going to order. 

 

 

 


Jul 07, 2011

Hello, fellow wind turbine enthusiasts. Anyone have any comments / complaints / industry trends they would like to share with me? I am new to this and slowly, learning the ropes.

Thanks,

Mike H


Jul 05, 2011

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Jun 12, 2011

i am looking to find other people  who would be interested in helping getting a wind power project up here in the north east. i am looking for developers and investors. if you have an interest or know someone who might be interested please get in touch with me.


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