Truth About Skystream & SWWP

[65DegN]

Lots of these Sky Streams being put up around here, Proven machines too and most of them are being put up on short towers, some BELOW THE TREES!
I kid you not. A $41,000 6KW installation on a 49' tower in 70 foot trees producing about the same power as my 1.5 KW solar array that cost me ~$6K.
Another $60K Proven turbine installation well below the trees, looks like a 40' tower, payback is probably 100 years.
The sales people are telling the public that the payback time is 7 years.
Seems the other installers around here have no shame or knowlege but are great snake-oil salesmen.
They are sucking up all the money in this area that is destined for renewable energy with bogus claims and hype that will eventually leave a real bad taste in peoples mouths when they realize that payback is nothing resembling 7 years.

[BB.]

My suggestion is to ask anyone with a wind turbine, or selling a wind turbine, to show you the monthly power generation from a kWH meter mounted on the turbine feed...

From what I can tell, hardly anyone has real honest to god data from over a 1 year period (let alone a two - five year period) that shows economically viable power output.

It would be interesting to see if any of the turbines you type about actually have utility grade power meters (or DC equivalent) on their output (and not just the vendor supplied numbers like the Skystream radio links).

-Bill

[Cariboocoot]

The laws of physics been repealed, have they?

There's a word that comes to mind, but I'm too polite to use it. It's akin to "spam".