On the face of it, harnessing wind power to heat your house seems easy. In fact some of you might be doing it already, assuming you’ve got a wind farm somewhere on your local grid and you hav…
  • partizan@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Why not use just a regular generator with that windmill, which would generate electricity for you, probably more efficiently, which you can use for light, heating, or whatever you want.

    • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The article doesn’t really do Tim justice. He’s a bodger who is basically a genius for what I can only describe as Goblin technology. His projects are as much about fun and experimenting as having a result. In the first windmill video he acknowledged that he could just buy a small electric windmill, but that’s not the point.

      I mean, this is the dude who made a narrow gauge railroad and a compressed air locomotive to transport wood to his terrifying biochar chopper and crucible.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I imagine he wants to avoid dependence on fuel suppliers, or pollution.