{"id":3141,"date":"2007-05-26T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/a-word-on-domestic-wind-turbines\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:40:31","slug":"a-word-on-domestic-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/a-word-on-domestic-wind-turbines\/","title":{"rendered":"a word on domestic wind turbines &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaiam.com\/realgoods\/\">Real Goods<\/a>, who&#8217;ve been doing the sustainability thing for almost 30 years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We generally advise that a good year-round wind turbine site isn&#8217;t a place that you&#8217;d want to live. It takes average wind speeds of 8 to 9 mph <em>[3.6-4 m\/s, or 12.9-14.5 km\/h]<\/em> and up, to make a really good site. That&#8217;s honestly more wind than most folks are comfortable living with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Solar Living Sourcebook, 12th ed., p.80<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Real Goods, who&#8217;ve been doing the sustainability thing for almost 30 years: We generally advise that a good year-round wind turbine site isn&#8217;t a place that you&#8217;d want to live. It takes average wind speeds of 8 to 9 mph [3.6-4 m\/s, or 12.9-14.5 km\/h] and up, to make a really good site. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[8],"tags":[557,559,59,558,56],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-real-goods","tag-sustainability","tag-wind","tag-wind-turbine","tag-windsave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-OF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","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=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}