Comments on: Urban Wind Power – Hype, Hope or Here Today? http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=83 Strategies for Community Organizers and Activists Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: vickyportwain http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=83&cpage=1#comment-82 vickyportwain Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:46:01 +0000 http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=83#comment-82 Roof-top turbines need to have decent clearance from the roof to avoid too much turbulance and it is difficult to get them of a sufficient scale to generate significant electricity. These problems have led to payback periods of around 20 years for some models now on the market. Stand alone turbines are great for houses in the countryside but at the moment it seems other technologies work better in the cities – like ground source heat pumps and solar.

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