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Micro Wind Turbines – Without The Hot Air

Myths, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Turbines / Liam O'Brien

Following up on our series of myth-busting posts we come to the second most asked question: Why don’t you have a wind turbine? Oh, let me count the reasons why… Part of the issue is the physics of how a wind turbine works. While they work great at the Megawatt (that’s 1 million watts) utility-scale (and […]

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Top 5 Issues with Nickel-Iron (NiFe) Batteries

Uncategorized / Liam O'Brien

I get asked a fair amount via email and other communications why I don’t use NiFe batteries or if there are any advantages to using them over the lithium-ion EV batteries that I use. My current view is that NiFe batteries provide almost no extra benefits for a lot of extra downsides, as I go

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