oodles of them around Bellingen Dorrigo and Buccrabendinni. Had some to bits to replace bearings... The popular one is mounted on a trailer.... You can buy smaller ones for nix to operate pumps etc in  remote areas where fossil fueled pumps are normally the only option.

 

A popular do it yourself one starts life as a fisher and paykel washing machine with a 44 gallon drum split into two bits welded onto the shaft

 

, The unique nature of where the F and P electric motor is situated lends itself to be modified for use as a wind driven power generator.

 

 

They sort of look like the discontinued 50 watt model on the link

 

http://ecopia.com.au/Small_Wind_Turbines

 

search on ebay

 

Wind Turbine 1000 W 24V (without mast)

 

Honestly when the Noreaster blows off the coast and into the bush in Summertime you are lucky to hear a helicopter hovering above your house

 

....let alone a wind turbine...

 

Comet windmills a local company (Macksville) are working on a prototype that integrates a water pump and the generation of power from one single system using both wind and solar collection.

 

I know Lyall and I have worked for his brother who owned a large engineering business situated next to the windmill business........ He has a vision and has exported these all over Asia

 

http://www.cometwindmills.com.au/company/index.html

 

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