# Life goes on - Winter 2020 **URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2020/5427 **Category:** Off Topic **Tags:** life **Created:** [October 27, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2020/5427 "2020-10-27T17:42:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 749
### Author: ![Dualfuel](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/dualfuel/32/44108_2.png) [@Dualfuel](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Dualfuel) #### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2020/5427/749 "2021-03-28T13:00:50Z")
I have never seen a fisher paykel motor here. Apparently samsung will sell you one for ~$140. Here $200 gets the worthless “400 watt” chinesium wind turbine. I don’t give up on wind, but there is a lot lower hanging fruit. Even mirror tiles pointing at solar panels offer more gain. Towers take a LOT of resources. They have to be tilt too, because you have to be able to repair the turbine. Here they have to be tilt- hand cranked… can’t trust some machine to start in winter, to take down the tower. Here the power wind is at 75ft (no turbulence). The footprint for a tower like that is about 500ft from where the power would be used. So I don’t know, it just seems there are so many cooler projects to work on. --- _[View the full topic](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2020/5427)._