{"id":169,"date":"2008-09-03T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2016-04-02T08:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T16:12:51","slug":"rooftop-wind-generator-takes-europe-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wind-energy\/rooftop-wind-generator-takes-europe-by-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop Wind Generator Takes Europe by Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 222px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 222\/300;float: right; margin: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/quiet-revolution-turbine.jpg\" alt=\"Quiet Revolution Turbine\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>A company called Quiet Revolution has come out with a better mousetrap in regard to <a title=\"residential wind turbines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wind-energy\/residential-wind-turbines-blow-away-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">residential wind turbines<\/a>. What makes the Quiet Revolution wind turbines unique is the vertical axis that the blades rotate upon.<\/p>\n<p>A horizontal axis is more efficient when it is pelted with consistent winds. A vertical axis, however, is efficient in all kinds of wind conditions including gusts and turbulence from surrounding buildings or other obstructions.<\/p>\n<p>The winds don\u2019t have to come from consistent directions or at consistent speeds for a Quiet Revolution turbine to work its magic. I\u2019ve talked before about the <a title=\"Helix wind turbines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wind-energy\/helix-wind-energy-for-home-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helix wind turbines<\/a>, based in California, which is based upon a similar concept.<\/p>\n<p>The Quiet Revolution, however, is not so quietly catching on in the UK and other European nations for backyards, city parks and rooftops of homes and businesses. Still a bit on the pricey side, the Quiet Revolution QR5 is retailing for about $44,000, which means that a significant price drop is needed to make this economically feasible for the average household.<\/p>\n<p>Still the UK-based company has been able to procure wind generator installations at the Kings College School in Wimbledon, high-rise buildings and a chain of pubs. This three-year old company has also started winning design and technical awards as well.<\/p>\n<p>The next iteration of Quiet Revolution wind generator, the QR 2.5 will be only 2.5 meters high (as opposed to 5 meters of the QR 5) and be more economically priced at around $14,000. This is the model that has many homeowners clamoring as it will be suited well for residential rooftops and promises to generate between 3,000 and 4,500 kWh per year in a decent wind location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company called Quiet Revolution has come out with a better mousetrap in regard to residential wind turbines. What makes the Quiet Revolution wind turbines unique is the vertical axis that the blades rotate upon. A horizontal axis is more efficient when it is pelted with consistent winds. A vertical axis, however, is efficient in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}