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Products => Crowd Funded Projects => Topic started by: hamster_nz on January 31, 2018, 09:53:00 pm
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Saw this in Twitter. A 5V/1A windmill in 0.866 kg.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/windpal-portable-wind-charger-for-the-outdoors#/ (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/windpal-portable-wind-charger-for-the-outdoors#/)
It looks like some of the promo pictures were taken in Patagonia around Cerro Fitzroy- somewhat ideal place for wind power. When I was there it was almost always blowing a gale.
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You'd need a 13mph wind to get anything useful out of it, and 22mph for 1A charge rate. :=\