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1. Guess you’ve been shopping. I saw a Mariah in action. Not bad, but compare
   sizing carefully. You may do better with the WePower, Check out Swift Wind
   Turbine by Cascades Engineering in Michigan, too. What ever you choose, I’m
   glad to know you plan on making a sound investment.

2. I’m going with the Mariah version as it will handle the winds better.

3. Appreciate it’s a state-of-the-art setup and believe the location was
   carefully selected by experts… so how’s the payback period after running
   for the last 6 months?

4. could have a centrifugal break like a lawn mower engine that would protect
   it in storms.

5. So on a normal day, what can it power?

6. @TK42138 – It is not only the goverments but the power companies also. If
   you try to do everything above board under NETMETERING the power companies
   will only pay you $0.015 per kilowatt/hr produced. You are better off
   having a cut over switch on YOUR side of the meter and switch your house to
   your alternative power source. When you take your system down for
   maintenance you switch over and use the power company as a back-up power
   source until maintainance is completed.

7. depends on your class of wind in your location, and actual current wind
   speeds. Just one shold do about half of your average daily needs. Italso
   depends on the size you buy. You can actually achieve nearly all you need
   with the right size for the circumstance.

8. @Anonymousg64 i dont think most houses actually consume more then average
   1-3kw or 24kwh/day-72kwh/day. (unless you go on vacation and forget 10
   100watt light bulbs on, or you left you`re 3 300watt fridges open and the
   compressor is constantly running.)

9. @153mileyfan The rotors on the PMG for that thing are huge, he said it will
   max out at 12KW output, when anyone talks about wind turbine output they
   talk in continuous output, he is talking 2-5KW all day equaling to between
   48-120KW hours per day. My own own house only uses 24KW hours a day.

10. Where do you live? Many models auto-brake when the wind is too high. Scaled
    correctly, a good turbine will run more often, regularly which is always
    better than just catching the big stuff. Sometimes smaller is better.

11. They are dangerous because of the force that can be exerted when they come
    together. I use to have two penny sized rare earth magnets and they could
    almost crush a finger. Once together it was almost impossible to get apart.
    Just imagine trying to work with large ones.

12. This turbine reduced Jay Leno’s total energy usage (which is very high) by
    0.01%. He’d have to put up a thousand of these to make any real dent .

13. That thing is gonna break in Oklahoma! gust to 40 are common I give it 10
    days

14. @TK42138 It’s to bad the government tax’s you every year for having a wind
    turbine.

15. any you make, you don’t buy

16. i think this a great idea,very commendable.I m curious as to how they make
    the turbines and how hazardous that process may be.Also, the rare earth
    magnets are harmful to us?how sodoes that mean the turbines are putting out
    some kind of energy that is harmful?is it like radiation we can t see
    it?what if you have several of the turbines together,does that make it more
    dangerous?how do you dispose of the unit?do you even need too?do the mags
    need to be replaced?how much?do they harm the environment

17. I am asking Mr. Leno to take a look at something here on You Tube, White
    Gasoline Vapor, author is IAMBILLYTHEKID. Read everything, I have sent him
    a DVD about it, a couple years back. Back then I didn’t know what I really
    did. You Tube made me realize just what I really did. I need a cheap, cost
    wise, lab test, from a Gas Spectrum Analyzer, to prove what I know. I did
    it to gasoline, and can do it to any liquid. The secret is the specific
    temperature.

18. no. it’s in the magnets. one blade could pin you to the wall

19. lol, dynamite. dont believe it, athough there are hazards, theres nothing
    to prevent us from using them to do similar things on our own.

20. wewe

21. @153mileyfan im guessing he really meant 2000 j/s, not watts per day, it
    would be around 172800000 joules in total if it ran at 2000watts all
    24hours A house that consumes 20 kwh per day actually consumes 72000000
    joules in a day, meaning 2000w system generating constant power is more
    then double what a 20kwh house consumes. but if you’re house has 20 1000w
    servers systems running at full load in the basement the power consumed
    would be 10 times what is produced by the 2000 watt generater.

22. Most can last over 40 mph!

23. Location. Location. Location

24. that s all well and fine but those magnets aren t a frequency that are
    harmful to us, these magnets are, and they are rere earth magnets, not the
    same as the magnet we have all over the house, as you put it. Magnets have
    different sizes, materials, strengths and can affect us differently
    accordingly. I m curious about these magnets and what makes them harmful to
    us, in what doses, etc etc etc. It’s not all the same thing as your trying
    to say.

25. Depends on the kWh size you select.