My conditions are: an area of Illinois a few miles down the road from a wind farm, in a neighborhood with lots of big old trees (which block my roof from the sun for a large portion of the sunny part of the year).
Nothing extreme at all, yet this would also be a great solution for me since I won't cut down the trees that drew me to the place to being with. Whether or not this is the specific tech, I'd love to get some small scale wind generation since a couple of KW worth of solar panels would be a waste of money for me.
Typically those trees cause the wind to be turbulent, like the dirty air coming off the back of a race car. Normally a wind turbine wants to be mounted high up in the air where the wind is all moving in one direction fairly uniformly. It's unlikely that this technology will naturally overcome that.
Nothing extreme at all, yet this would also be a great solution for me since I won't cut down the trees that drew me to the place to being with. Whether or not this is the specific tech, I'd love to get some small scale wind generation since a couple of KW worth of solar panels would be a waste of money for me.