Irish site for home built wind turbines
We have been getting requests about where to buy magnets for making wind turbines here are some links for European readers.
From Ebay in the UK you can buy one magnet from this link Neodymium Magnet 46 x 30 x 10mm UK
From Ebay in Germany you can buy magnets one at a time One Neodymium Magnet 46 x 30 x 10mm Germany
Five at a time Five Neodymium Magnets from Germany
Or Ten at a time Ten Neodymium Magnets from Germany
Hugh Piggott is holding a course in Scotland April 23rd 2016.
Accommodation is provided from Saturday 23rd to Saturday 30th April 2016. These will be the arrival and departure days. The course will run for six days from 24th to 29th.
Cost £750 including accommodation. A limited number of student discounts may be available if there are enough people paying full price.
This may be your only opportunity to be taught by Hugh Piggott personally as he is not planning to teach workshops outside of Scotland.
We are very excited to have been nominated for the Save Our Planet Awards.
These awards are in their second year and it means a lot to us to be nominated for an award that is focused om environmental issues. Many people know us as the “windmill people” because we have been teaching people to build their own wind turbines since 2007. We have taught many courses in our local area of Co. Leitrim and have also been teaching further afield – both in Co Kilkenny and Portugal our next workshop in in Lisbon in January.
So pop on over to vote for us in the Save Our Planet Awards. If we are successful then more people will hear about home built wind turbines.
Germany’s northernmost state Schleswig-Holstein lies on the base of the Jutland Peninsula between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
It will produce as much green electricity as it consumes over the year for the first time in 2014. It also plans to eventually generate as much as 300% of its electricity from renewables. This is a big achievement as eight years ago it generated about 30% of its electricity from wind power.
Two years ago the state’s planed to go 300 percent renewable, a target that then-Environmental Minister Peter Altmaier did not doubt the state could reach.
This year, Schleswig-Holstein will cross a symbolic milestone towards that goal by producing as much renewable electricity as the state consumes in electricity (including conventional) over the year as a whole – meaning that the figure is a net calculation, not that the state can do without interconnections to Denmark and other parts of Germany. Indeed, the state needs the grid both to sell its excess renewable power and to purchase conventional electricity.
In April, the state’s Energiewende Minister told German website Klimaretter that the government’s new target for 40-45 percent renewable electricity by 2025 is not enough to offset the drop in nuclear power by the end of the phaseout in December 2022 – a statement that stretches the case.
In 2013, Germany met 25 percent of its domestic power demand from renewables, with nuclear making up around 15 percent. Renewables would therefore need to grow by 15 percent to completely offset nuclear, putting the country at 40 percent renewable power by 2022.
Sources: Renewables International, and wikipedia.org