Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies LLC
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hurricane Wind Power Receives 2011 Best of Roanoke Award
...
U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
NEW YORK, NY, December 20, 2011 -- Hurricane Wind Power has been selected for the 2011 Best of Roanoke Award in the Appliances category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2011 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)
U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a New York City based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.
The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.
SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association
Hurricanewindpower.com Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies LLC Blog is all about wind power solar sustainability for the do it yourselfer. Come often and share your ideas
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wind generator basics building
To build wind generators, one must be adequately familiarized with their many parts and their uses. A wind generator has four distinct components. These are: the body, tail, hub and blades, the tower. Building the hub and blades take about three times longer than the other parts. However, even though it is the most time consuming aspect, it is not as hard to build.
The blades and hub are made of material that can be obtained easily. Sometimes they are even free. While working on the construction of the hub and blades, the motor is ordered from a trusted dealer. This motor, which is the heart of all motorized wind generators, goes into the body. It is the motor that converts the energy of the wind into electricity.
New and recycled parts can make up the body and the tail. It depends on the builder which is to be utilized. The body of the wind generator can be made up of a stainless steel, double-walled chimney pipe recycled from old pipes replaced from homes. These can be easily obtained from any installer of chimneys or dealer of woodstoves. For those living in the south, furnace dealers can be approached.
This chimney pipe is sturdy, as it is designed for outdoor use. The exterior of old recycled pipes is usually still in relatively good condition. The interior, however, rapidly deteriorates due to the exhausts of the chimney or woodstove. The stainless steel material is adequate enough to protect the motor and other moving parts installed within it.
The artist in the builder can be expressed in the tail, for this component can be designed in virtually any color, shape, design, and theme. This adds fun to the construction of wind generators.
As for the tower, there are several options available. They come in various sizes and shapes. One can buy a ready-made tower, which is a bit expensive, or it can also be built from scratch. Wind generator tower designs can either be free-standing or tilted up.
The tower does not need to be too high. The basic rule of thumb regarding tower height is that it has to be higher by fifteen feet in relation to any obstruction occurring within a three hundred feet radius. Nevertheless, the higher the tower is, the better the wind current.
It is preferable to build one's own tower, especially if budget is a consideration. A home-built pipe tower supported by a guy wire is relatively cheap. And there are also recycled television towers that are readily available and ideal. In terms of maintenance, a tilt-up tower is ideal. Simple poles can also serve as good towers.
TV towers are strong enough and are usually thirty to fifty feet long. They can be dismantled in ten-foot sections, and they can be found wherever households want to take down their old towers because of a shift to satellite TV, which is the craze these days. These households will even pay to get their towers down.
These are the basic considerations in building a wind generator. Now it is time to look at the various plans available online and get the construction going.
The blades and hub are made of material that can be obtained easily. Sometimes they are even free. While working on the construction of the hub and blades, the motor is ordered from a trusted dealer. This motor, which is the heart of all motorized wind generators, goes into the body. It is the motor that converts the energy of the wind into electricity.
New and recycled parts can make up the body and the tail. It depends on the builder which is to be utilized. The body of the wind generator can be made up of a stainless steel, double-walled chimney pipe recycled from old pipes replaced from homes. These can be easily obtained from any installer of chimneys or dealer of woodstoves. For those living in the south, furnace dealers can be approached.
This chimney pipe is sturdy, as it is designed for outdoor use. The exterior of old recycled pipes is usually still in relatively good condition. The interior, however, rapidly deteriorates due to the exhausts of the chimney or woodstove. The stainless steel material is adequate enough to protect the motor and other moving parts installed within it.
The artist in the builder can be expressed in the tail, for this component can be designed in virtually any color, shape, design, and theme. This adds fun to the construction of wind generators.
As for the tower, there are several options available. They come in various sizes and shapes. One can buy a ready-made tower, which is a bit expensive, or it can also be built from scratch. Wind generator tower designs can either be free-standing or tilted up.
The tower does not need to be too high. The basic rule of thumb regarding tower height is that it has to be higher by fifteen feet in relation to any obstruction occurring within a three hundred feet radius. Nevertheless, the higher the tower is, the better the wind current.
It is preferable to build one's own tower, especially if budget is a consideration. A home-built pipe tower supported by a guy wire is relatively cheap. And there are also recycled television towers that are readily available and ideal. In terms of maintenance, a tilt-up tower is ideal. Simple poles can also serve as good towers.
TV towers are strong enough and are usually thirty to fifty feet long. They can be dismantled in ten-foot sections, and they can be found wherever households want to take down their old towers because of a shift to satellite TV, which is the craze these days. These households will even pay to get their towers down.
These are the basic considerations in building a wind generator. Now it is time to look at the various plans available online and get the construction going.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Hurricanewindpower.com Releases Cyclone Vawt
In recent years the residential wind turbine market in the United States has become highly competitive. The Vertical Axis Wind Turbine remeains somewhat underdeveloped despite consumer interest., Hurricanewindpower.com releases Cyclone (TM) VAWT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The lack of availability of a product of this type has led Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies LLC to research, development and manufacture their Cyclone (TM) line of VAWT wind turbines. According to Jones in a study conducted by Hurricane customers communicate a bi fold frustration of the lack of availability of Vawts in that models currently available on the market are grossly overpriced in their estimation. Secondly most of the market is saturated with poorly made imported products that will in the consumers opinion will not last long enough to provide a return on the customers expenditure. The Cyclone (TM) Vawt will represent one of the only affordable options made in the United States.
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine designs are very popular with experimental designs by the DIY community, however many who have a interest do not have the "know how" to fabricate design and put a project like this in actions. The new Cyclone VAWTS as Well as the full line of Hurricane (TM) Wind Generators can be seen at http://www.hurricanewindpower.com . They can also be seen in action at the Hurricane Vision You Tube Channel Located at http://www.youtube.com/
# # #
HurricaneWindpower.com
Wind Power by Hurricane has the best wind generators and wind generator parts for the DIY do it yourself wind turbine builer
Wind Power by Hurricane has the best wind generators and wind generator parts for the DIY do it yourself wind turbine builer
Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies Releases "Perfect Storm PMA" (TM)
Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies Releases "Perfect Storm PMA" (TM)
Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies Releases "Perfect Storm PMA" This is the first in a line of Permanent Magnet Alternators made in the USA with maximum versatility and functionality.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) - Sep 27, 2011 - Hurricane Wind Power Wind Turbine Technologies announced today the release of their much anticipated "Perfect Storm PMA" (TM). The generator was developed over the last 3 years to compete with imports primarily from China which have dominated the alternative energy market. Over the past decade developers of alternative energy projects that require a high output generator have had few options but to import generators for their inventions. It has been a goal of Wind Turbine Technologies LLC of the past several years to develop a generator capable of competing with these imports and provide an American Made alternative for the experimental research and development sector.
The Perfect Storm PMA features patented Quad Output (TM) technology. This technology allows Hurricane Wind Power (TM) to manufacture the "Perfect Storm" so that it provides unmatched versatility. The quad design promoted numerous wiring configurations that allows the builder to adjust the generator power curve to the needs of a specific application. Wiring the four output in series will produce higher voltage and lower amperage which is needed for many of today's direct connect grid ties such as the SMA Windy BOY, or the Power One line of inverters. Wiring in parallel provides a power curve with much higher amperage and lower voltage as needed in the case of charging an off grid twelve volt power system. The Perfect storm could also be configured in a combination of series , parallel to for builders interested in a power curve with more of a balance between voltage and amperage.
The Perfect Storm is completely modular in construction and will be built in exceedingly greater outputs as larger stators are installed on the platform as the line is expanded. By spring 2012 Hurricane Wind Power will be offering the new generator platform in outputs up to and exceeding five kilowatts. The new line of generators can be seen by visiting
The Perfect Storm PMA features patented Quad Output (TM) technology. This technology allows Hurricane Wind Power (TM) to manufacture the "Perfect Storm" so that it provides unmatched versatility. The quad design promoted numerous wiring configurations that allows the builder to adjust the generator power curve to the needs of a specific application. Wiring the four output in series will produce higher voltage and lower amperage which is needed for many of today's direct connect grid ties such as the SMA Windy BOY, or the Power One line of inverters. Wiring in parallel provides a power curve with much higher amperage and lower voltage as needed in the case of charging an off grid twelve volt power system. The Perfect storm could also be configured in a combination of series , parallel to for builders interested in a power curve with more of a balance between voltage and amperage.
The Perfect Storm is completely modular in construction and will be built in exceedingly greater outputs as larger stators are installed on the platform as the line is expanded. By spring 2012 Hurricane Wind Power will be offering the new generator platform in outputs up to and exceeding five kilowatts. The new line of generators can be seen by visiting
http://www.Hurricanewindpower.com and the videos of the product are available at the You tube site http://www.youtube.com/user/hurricanewindpower?feature=mhum and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Hurricanewindpower?v=wall
Friday, September 23, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
This is why Hurricane Wind Power has a problem with buying from and supporting the Chinese economy
China Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths
, On Thursday September 15, 2011, 7:46 pm EDT
BEIJING — In the name of fighting pollution, China has sent the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs soaring in the United States.By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals — which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products — China is temporarily shutting down most of the industry and crimping the global supply of the vital resources.
China produces nearly 95 percent of the world’s rare earth materials, and it is taking the steps to improve pollution controls in a notoriously toxic mining and processing industry. But the moves also have potential international trade implications and have started yet another round of price increases for rare earths, which are vital for green-energy products including giant wind turbines, hybrid gasoline-electric cars and compact fluorescent bulbs.
General Electric, facing complaints in the United States about rising prices for its compact fluorescent bulbs, recently noted in a statement that if the rate of inflation over the last 12 months on the rare earth element europium oxide had been applied to a $2 cup of coffee, that coffee would now cost $24.55.
An 11-watt G.E. compact fluorescent bulb — the lighting equivalent of a 40-watt incandescent bulb — was priced on Thursday at $15.88 on Wal-Mart’s Web site for pickup in a Nashville, Ark., store.
Wal-Mart, which has made a big push for compact fluorescent bulbs, acknowledged that it needed to raise prices on some brands lately. “Obviously we don’t want to pass along price increases to our customers, but occasionally market conditions require it,” Tara Raddohl, a spokeswoman, said. The Chinese actions on rare earths were a prime topic of conversation at a conference here on Thursday that was organized by Metal-Pages, an industry data firm based in London.
Soaring prices are rippling through a long list of industries.
“The high cost of rare earths is having a significant chilling effect on wind turbine and electric motor production in spite of offsetting government subsidies for green tech products,” said one of the conference attendees, Michael N. Silver, chairman and chief executive of American Elements, a chemical company based in Los Angeles. It supplies rare earths and other high-tech materials to a wide range of American and foreign businesses.
But with light bulbs, especially, the timing of the latest price increases is politically awkward for the lighting industry and for environmentalists who backed a shift to energy-efficient lighting.
In January, legislation that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2007 will begin phasing out traditional incandescent bulbs in favor of spiral compact fluorescent bulbs, light-emitting diodes and other technologies. The European Union has also mandated a switch from incandescent bulbs to energy-efficient lighting.
Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is running for the Republican presidential nomination on a platform that includes strong opposition to the new lighting rules in the United States and has been a leader of efforts by House Republicans to repeal it.
China says it has largely shut down its rare earth industry for three months to address pollution problems. By invoking environmental concerns, China could potentially try to circumvent international trade rules that are supposed to prohibit export restrictions of vital materials.
In July, the European Union said in a statement on rare earth policy that the organization supported efforts to protect the environment, but that discrimination against foreign buyers of rare earths was not allowed under World Trade Organization rules.
China has been imposing tariffs and quotas on its rare earth exports for the last several years, curtailing global supplies and forcing prices to rise eightfold to fortyfold during that period for the various 17 rare earth elements.
Even before this latest move by China, the United States and the European Union were preparing to file a case at the W.T.O. this winter that would challenge Chinese export taxes and export quotas on rare earths.
Chinese officials here at the conference said the government was worried about polluted water, polluted air and radioactive residues from the rare earth industry, particularly among many small and private companies, some of which operate without the proper licenses. While rare earths themselves are not radioactive, they are always found in ore containing radioactive thorium and require careful handling and processing to avoid contaminating the environment.
Most of the country’s rare earth factories have been closed since early August, including those under government control, to allow for installation of pollution control equipment that must be in place by Oct. 1, executives and regulators said.
The government is determined to clean up the industry, said Xu Xu, chairman of the China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals and Chemicals Importers and Exporters, a government-controlled group that oversees the rare earth industry. “The entrepreneurs don’t care about environmental problems, don’t care about labor problems and don’t care about their social responsibility,” he said. “And now we have to educate them.”
Beijing authorities are creating a single government-controlled monopoly, Bao Gang Rare Earth, to mine and process ore in northern China, the region that accounts for two-thirds of China’s output. The government is ordering 31 mostly private rare earth processing companies to close this year in that region and is forcing four other companies into mergers with Bao Gang, said Li Zhong, the vice general manager of Bao Gang Rare Earth.
The government also plans to consolidate 80 percent of the production from southern China, which produces the rest of China’s rare earths, into three companies within the next year or two, Mr. Li said. All three of these companies are former ministries of the Chinese government that were spun out as corporations, and the central government still owns most of the shares.
The taxes and quotas China had in place to restrict rare earth exports caused many companies to move their factories to China from the United States and Europe so that they could secure a reliable and inexpensive source of raw materials.
China promised when it joined the W.T.O. in 2001 that it would not restrict exports except for a handful of obscure materials. Rare earths were not among the exceptions.
But even if the W.T.O. orders China to dismantle its export tariffs and quotas, the industry consolidation now under way could enable China to retain tight control over exports and continue to put pressure on foreign companies to relocate to China.
The four state-owned companies might limit sales to foreign buyers, a tactic that would be hard to address through the W.T.O., Western trade officials said.
Hedge funds and other speculators have been buying and hoarding rare earths this year, with prices rising particularly quickly through early August, and dipping since then as some have sold their inventories to take profits, said Constantine Karayannopoulos, the chief executive of Neo Material Technologies, a Canadian company that is one of the largest processors in China of raw rare earths.
“The real hot money got into the industry building neodymium and europium inventories in Shanghai warehouses,” he said.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)