Build Your Own Wind Turbine

We have just put together a new website for selling and swapping things. The website is free to use and there is a section for giving away things as well.

We hope that the site will be mainly used by people from the renewable energy community however use is not limited to anybody or anything - so if you would like to sell, swap or give away your wind turbine bits or your diving suit then this is the place for you.

Whilst the site is simple to use, the posts will be monitored to prevent misuse so please - no posts selling lightly used sleighs with 12 redundant reindeers, one good owner...

It is up to the site's users to arrange sales, collection etc.

http://www.eirbyte.net/buyandsell/

Niall is making nice wooden blades for sale so if you can't make your own the here is his website.

Hugh Piggott has a new blog page to provide a home for new material as his web site is a bit full.

There are people using Hughs name on twitter to sell rubbish so if you are a twitter then please retweet this or tweet a link to Hughs web site it might help to prevent some people from getting ripped off

Hugh Piggotts web site http://www.scoraigwind.com/ and blog site http://scoraigwind.blogspot.com

The windturbine we built on the September 2008 workshop was filimed for Nationwide RTE and aired on Januray 23 .

Blowing in the Wind

• Niall Martin visits a Galway couple to see how they have made use of their home-made wind turbine.
  

• http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0123/nationwide.html
  

After a month of slow to no internet connection here are the photos of the finished 2.4m turbine that was built on the October workshop in Ballinamore.