{"id":159,"date":"2004-02-26T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2004-02-26T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T19:52:07","slug":"yet-another-scottish-rooftop-turbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/26\/yet-another-scottish-rooftop-turbine\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another Scottish rooftop turbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anent the <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/archives\/000031.html\">WindSave<\/a> turbine, yet another similar product has appeared: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewabledevices.com\/\">Renewable Devices Swift<\/a>. It&#8217;s Scottish too, and again there are few details. <a href=\"http:\/\/thescotsman.scotsman.com\/business.cfm?id=221612004\">The Scotsman has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone commented here that one could build such a device cheaply from parts from any DIY store. This isn&#8217;t quite the case. Properly formed blade sets are not trivial to make, and while you could build your own generator, weatherproofing it and making it CE-compliant would be <b>hard<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anent the WindSave turbine, yet another similar product has appeared: the Renewable Devices Swift. It&#8217;s Scottish too, and again there are few details. The Scotsman has the story. Someone commented here that one could build such a device cheaply from parts from any DIY store. This isn&#8217;t quite the case. Properly formed blade sets are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[558,56],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-wind-things","tag-wind-turbine","tag-windsave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}