Wind Turbines

[Lin Henden]

Question for James Barber or anyone else that knows the answer please. What is the council's policy on wind turnbines on a roof?

Lin Henden

[peterstorm1985]

Wouldn't it be best to ask Southwark council directly, with a specific question? If you are thinking of having one installed the planning department would seem the right place to start. You can ring them up and they don't bite.

[stephent]

Have you found that a wind turbine here would make economic sense? As far as I know it is very difficult to get them to generate anything like a sensible amount of electricity.

[computedshorty]

Mounting wind turbines--of any kind--on a building is a very bad idea. I've yet to see an application where this has worked or will likely work. In short, rooftop turbines will not do what their promoters claim and often will cause their owners no end of grief.

The vibration caused would need a very strong stucture and the high mounting would in itself be a hazard in a built up area.

A Turbine of any size would have to be large enough to generate power for home use.

Have you ever heard a wind generator in use?

I hope you are not thinking of putting it near my bedroom.

[mynamehere]

Get photovoltaic panels: at least 10 on a normal victorian roof and a hot water system. Our house has been 50% self sufficient since we put these two systems in and you can register for a Feed In Tariff. Your house will look and feel super.

[Undisputedtruth]

Apparently they don't work well in London. too many tall buildings.

Southwark Council installed a wind turbine in the Heygate Estate (?) and it generated a paltry amount of energy.

[katie1997]

Anyway, building a wind turbine isn't difficult at all as long as you have good analytical skills to choose the components and able to follow instructions. Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to build a wind turbine from instructions

[maxxi]

Are these just for decoration then? Was the Pizzeria Castello sacrificed in vain!?

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[Undisputedtruth]

Maxxi, the Strata's turbines were envisage to generate 8% of the building's energy needs but I've not seen any official confirmation that it can do this.

I attended a number of buildings as part of the Open House event where one owner had said his wind turbine was completely useless.

[Jeremy]

I've never seen the Stata turbines moving.

[Annette Curtain]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I've never seen the Stata turbines moving.

I have BUT only once

( though I swear they were being, y'know..."powered" )

[maxxi]

It's time we all did our bit...

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