R&D
No matter what industry your in and no matter what you do in this world, there are always going to be a handful of people who seem to know everything about your field of work than anyone else in the world.
Most (not all) of these people are either engineers, other wind turbine companys, or individuals trying to find flaws in others products since they themselves have done it all, and know it all.
No person on this earth knows it all and has done it all. People with this type of thinking seem to be living in a dream world and harp daily on what is known and proven is all there is to be known and discovered for the next 10 billion years.
We are an independent builder and developer of wind turbines and other alternative energy generation methods. This means we develop and build wind turbines and other power generating devices in the peace and quiet of our own place and offer them to those who need power, not to those who have extra time to pick them apart with set calculations and what has been done for thousands of years.
All people who are into developing anything where there is still much to learn and theories or calculations that can be changed tomorrow should concentrate on doing their part without frowning on any persons efforts or developments if it does not look like their own. Unfortunately, there is alot of this on the internet and in the world in general. Many come to this site every day just to shake thier heads in ego disapproval.
This is why we are not part of any groups or message boards who talk about wind turbines or any other type of alternative energy methods. After all, once a book taught know it all posts "It can't be done" - "It's impossible" or "It's not in the books" and this is injected into ones mind that is new to wind energy you have pretty much shut the door to anything other than what has been around since the Holland grinding mills.
For some odd reason, once most people know just a small amount about wind turbines, they automatically think they can judge and tell others how they must build them. If they have been doing it for 30 years, it's even worse.........With a few medications mixed in.
There is way too much debating and needless comments out there, and way less doing, creating, and experimenting.
There are many people who build wind turbines either for personal use or for mass production.
Every wind turbine we have seen on the net or out in the field has been better than no wind turbine at all.
Some are very elaborate, and some are very simple, but all of them WORK, so we give due credit where it's due.
Wind turbines are very simple to produce and build and do not require a PHD or 20 years of engineering to figure out how certain blade types interact with the winds, how to get ten times the rated power out of a motor, or how to design them to hold up in extreme wind conditions.
Mount simple pitched plywood on a generator and get 30 watts, or you can mount a certain blade type/design the same size on the same generator and get 200 watts from the same wind speed........It's all in the design, not size.
"Swept Area" and "Cube of Wind Speed" is old news, about as old as a flat earth theory, and is broken every single day around the world by those going out of the books and written down "formulas" to try different things..........Everyone should be doing this........The birds and bees would laugh at our egos if they could.