Originally Posted by Chip-3Door
Wind turbines are a bit of a nightmare from a maintaince point of view.
They are constantly fucking up apparently, and that never gets mentioned when you buy one of course, lol
So the projected time to recoup your costs, is often out by an infinite amount of time, as if you get a few expensive problems occuring, you never actually see your money back.
All depends on type, manufacturer, location etc which people don't realise.
A 1.2kW micro turbine will actually only give you approx 400watts in a 6m/s wind which is the min wind speed you need to get anything decent out of it. It will probably cost you about £2k for a decent on.
Based on a 25% wind uptime @ 400watts, you are looking at a 19year payback on a micro turbine!
Obviously this won't even boil a kettle
