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I’ve had good results deploying both wind and solar at remote off grid sites, when there was a week of clouds due to a storm system moving through there was quite often a lot of wind and the batteries would stay fully charged.

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what kind of hardware do you use to capture wind energy? It’s pretty easy to get into solar as a hobbyist but wind seems to have a higher barrier to entry (?)

Some $300 wind turbines off Ali baba that put out 300 watts or something. It was kind of like a propeller diameter 1m mounted to a little dc motor that was mostly bearings.

We mounted it on a pile to a shed made of metal covered foam panels, the whole shed blew over. Guyed it down after that.

300w for 1m diameter is probably the rating for the absolute best case scenario, the average could be closer to 10x less depending on the location

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/04/small-windmills-pu...

Maybe 1m was the radius, this project was more than 15 years ago. The point was instead of dead batteries during cloudy times the wind complemented nicely and the batteries were charged and our load powered.

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