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[@keithvaughan1363]

We need more people like Dale Vince in this country. Another great video Robert, thank you.

[@andyroid7339]

I agree! x1 turbine powering the red and blue LEDs, heaters and pumps in a hydroponic greenhouse growing all the vegetables currently imported from the rest of the world, as well as charging the machinery and the farmer's car.

[@alanshort7253]

This is great, what we really need is a small bladeless turbine that meets the requirements to power a single home, and how to setup a battery inverter system that joins the house wiring

[@rexsolomon6325]

Dale is fantastic. Perserverance - not everyone has it. Dale has it in spades - and that's what makes him successful. There's nothing wrong in being exactly who you want to be. I wish Dale continued success and may he inspire many others.

[@paulbrouyere1735]

Keep up the good work, I went to Denmark in 1996 to learn and work with small windturbines. They are definitely a good practice for small communities. Let’s also not forget there are a lot of storage possibilities to produce heat with excess energy. E.g. sand battery at 600 Celsius

[@julianruggiero9701]

I'm really enjoying the wind power episodes, it's so neat to see how much progress is being made with wind power and just how viable an option it is becoming.

[@cloggsy1971]

Two wind turbines stood on top of a hill. One asks the other "Do you listen to much Rap music?" "No, of course not," he replies "I'm a big metal fan!"

[@sMASHsound]

fiber glass. sry.

[@ljprep6250]

Cloggsy, for the pun. (Mo, it had to be metal for the pun to work.)

[@sMASHsound]

again, sry...

[@unguidedone]

no as rap is crap

[@shawnthefarmer5161]

haha, good one

[@GBodyShop]

I'm from the states. All I can say it's great to see anyone open a local business and keeping locals working and with innovation that will not only better the quality of life for some. But in the end better for the world. Good luck with wind turbine business!!! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@greyareaRK1]

The small version looks like a classic windmill from western movies. Kind of awed by Dale as a businessman. Truly creative businessmen are vanishingly rare, let alone ethically motivated.

[@ASilentS]

A local factory, to make local turbines, to power a local shop for local people!

[@jeales895]

Royston Vasey!

[@busog97641]

Are you local?

[@jeales895]

There's nothing for you here

[@busog97641]

jeales895 Hehe

[@Loundsify]

this is brilliant haha love a good league of gentlemen quote

[@vizionthing]

Good god this country needs more people like this, awesome attitude.

[@2014andBeyonD]

The joys of KZbin.. I love this show.

[@SKBreakDaRules]

megawatt hours are written MWh, not mWh. for future reference: the prefix mega- (meaning ×1 000 000) is shortened with a capital M, lowercase m means mili- (/1 000).

[@fullychargedshow]

Thanks, all tips very welcome.

[@thegreenman4898]

DA rules should be spelt the rules.......

[@SKBreakDaRules]

I was 14 when I created this account, and I was trying to Be Cool™

[@burakciceksoy]

Yep, that what I was going to tell them :D Thanks!

[@JavierChiappa]

3kWh/day per house? is that how they are calculation those "15 Houses worth". Just how many kWh per day per turbine? I get lost in this translations :P

[@samguapo4573]

Robert. Love your program. Decent detail without being too technical. Amusing, frivolous and not boring. Most of all, your coverage of different topics so green people like me don't have to hunt them down and research them myself.

[@daviddavid9837]

I've seen this months to years ago, and it came 'round again. I hope the business is doing well. Wonderful when you can make your own products and solutions to meet your own country's needs at home. Very well done.

[@aflatbroke1]

What an amazing company Britwind is. I hope Dale is recognized for what he has achieved, Brilliant!

[@schumzy]

Watched this a couple of years back. Since then, I've learnt about mold making, electronics, compliant mechanisms, and CAD design. This is a very doable project almost anywhere in the world. Yes, even the mold/oven set-up is possible. You'll need a custom CNC machine that can go that long, but plenty of open source designs with flexible dimensions

[@novacleon]

You might have any schematics/ design for the 5kw r9000? Thanks

[@ohshitniggaaa]

This video is 6 years old so of course it's easier and cheaper to make these now

[@CarlHulk]

So awesome, thank you for all of the episodes so far! When good people take on a worthy mission it works like this and helps make a better reality for all of us. Thank you!

[@ewangimson]

Fantastic to see investment in complete turbines happening in the UK, even if they are only quite small. Ecotricity seem to be going from strength to strength, more power to them!

[@billyray323]

Fantastic, love to hear a British business doing well & investing in our own little group of nations. Well done! 🎄🎉🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@1943L]

It's not 'just a spring' that is being used to regulate the wind/yaw, but a well designed, critical component. I designed one for that use in the North of England some years ago and it needs a lot of data to get things right. Nice little company, good to see.

[@cyoungso]

This is the type of installation that will make a big difference. Low cost, broad distribution. Great show

[@LFH02]

Looks like a Great product. nice to see some UK based manufacturing thanks for sharing.

[@GreenJimll]

As a long time Ecotricity customer (and watcher of Fully Charged!) its good to see some of the manufacturing being done in the UK to help the renewables revolution. And fair play to Dale: whilst I've disagreed with him on various things he does tend to put his time and effort where his mouth is and get results. I'm interested to hear how the wave/tide work Ecotricity were involved with is getting on too - not heard much about that in the last year or so. Oh, and please: no roof top wind turbines. That's a terrible moment in the march of renewables that should be consigned to the bin of history. Lets hope we don't see them back in B&Q again!

[@jonc67uk]

Nice PMA turbine. Great to see it being made in the UK as a commercial thing, rather than just efficient DIY turbines 😁

[@martinrandall5836]

Whenever I talk to people about windpower, they always say "not in my back yard", but if these are so ugly then so are motorways and railways, so why not put these up alongside motorways and railways, that way all the uglyness is in one place?

[@donaldstafford970]

See this is very close to my train of thought. Why don't we utilize the wind generated by vehicles on motorways? Place vertical windmills that will catch either natural wind or wind from passing vehicles to help generate more electricity for the surrounding area?

[@electricdeckhead3083]

local farmer here had the same view, then they offered him around $100,000 per generator to install on his property, his answer then was stick as many as you can fit there.

[@lookatthisvidsandfun]

I think one major problem is ice, that will be thrown off the blades randomly in winter. That's why placing them near traffic is a bad idea.

[@electricdeckhead3083]

@@lookatthisvidsandfun here they are placed no where near roads at all, but I am in outback Australia and ice is the least of our worries. but they would all be a good 4 to 5 kilometres from the roads.

[@adrianmclaughlin7057]

You'd be surprised to know that Ice Throw, even in cold climates, is a bit of a rarity as the ice on the blades deforms the airflow, makes the blades heavy and affects the spinning of the blades. the main problem with turbines near main roads is something called "flicker". basically when the sun interacts with the movement of the blades to create shadows or reflections that are distracting and therefore dangerous to drivers

[@jehugarcia]

very cool stuff

[@silverismoney]

Hey Jehu, hows the powerwall and the bus going !!! Love your channel.

[@mini1959dj]

Thank you Robert for all you are doing with the show it's great for keeping me updated with all the E.V. and Eco stuff in fun way that kryten would be proud of 😃

[@aranthos]

This dude had such a calm demeanour. Really enjoyed this interview.

[@mitchking1491]

I couldn't help but feel this guy really wasn't in to the whole interview etc. Good work Robert trying to squeeze some personality out of him.

[@GavinFreedomLover]

yeah he's pretty annoying Robert did well.

[@lksf9820]

He's got Robert down as a bit of a nob really.

[@SeventySoyer]

An Easter European here (if this description still means anything), love the British humor and your channel. :)

[@marc0523]

We love the Easter Europeans, they taste all chocolaty :D

[@alt4523]

Unquestionably Vince's comment about Eastern Europeans is derogatory in nature. The reaction of the host of fully charged in general and the childish giggles are totally inappropriate. I am startled by this preposterous interplay. I can't see any humour in this at all. Vince is actually an ageing fucker who dumped his wife and neglected his son without a shadow of gilt. We needs less people like Vince in the UK and more Easter Europeans immigrants if we are ever to make Britain great again!

[@mab7727]

british and humor can't be in the same sentence ...

[@SupraSmart68]

Aboelenein, you need to watch Carry On Camping. Even if you don't understand a word of it, the visuals will make perfect sense. If you don't find that funny, there's no hope for you. Try Monty Python's Life of Brian if you're more of an intellectual. I could go on... so I will; Spike Milligan, Dave Allen, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther movies and The Goon Show, Billy Connolly, Rowan Atkinson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Dodd etc. We invented humour. We had to since every other foreign bugger has invaded us! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_humour Where do you live and what do you find humorous? I'm genuinely interested as you have a very unusual name. Are you sure you spelt it correctly? That's British humour! :-p By the way, for anyone who's unaware, you choose to take offence. Your reaction is a choice, albeit an unconscious one until it is pointed out to you. A more constructive approach is to try to understand why someone might say what they do and examine it for it's validity as an argument before choosing to dismiss their opinion as faulty logic.

[@timoliver8940]

Would have been interested to hear how much noise there is from one of these as I used to holiday on a Hebridean island where the cottage was next door to a house with a wind generator on a 15m mast and the noise as it rotated was an awful and continuous day and night swooshing irrespective of the wind speed. After 2 summers rental we never went back to that cottage and chose one at the other end of the island!

[@sueneilson896]

I worked in the renewable energy field for a decade until recently, and as a rule of thumb, the smaller the wind turbine, the less efficient, and the more it loses out to solar on a cost basis. Even though its bloody windy here,(west australia) its not economic to install small scale wind turbines. Large scale works well.

[@owenbevt3]

"and the more it loses out to solar on a cost basis"... a lot less to in Scotland.

[@HBPowerwall]

Another great production.. good work!

[@richardbradley1598]

Slightly awkward interview I thought, the guy wasn't exactly that forthcoming and Robert had to work hard to keep things flowing

[@yash1152]

but i liked that

[@jimbanda]

He answered everything, explained things fairly well. I thought he was ok.

[@fishhuntadventure]

@@jimbanda Ya, that he’s building wind turbines not being an actor probably makes him more work focused than interview friendly. I see no concerns with that

[@johnr.seydel3821]

Love this show! Wish we had a cost breakdown though!!

[@TheSmallRabbit]

At £31K installed for the R9000 its not really for the general public. It needs to be in the £5K area to really catch on but maybe creating around 4Kw to augment a Solar PV Batt blended system.

[@mbabcock111]

www.magnet4sale.com/talon5-5kw-wind-generator-system-grid-tied-system-w-30/

[@jkprops]

A auto can cost 30-50k and last maybe 5-10 years and will lose value but this can start paying me back $$ which a car cannot. Whats more important a nice car or power for life ( buy a used car)

[@MrSummitville]

@@jkprops There is a good chance, that it never makes enough electricity to pay for the total installation cost. I can use a car to go work and to make way more money vs what this Wind Turbine can ever make ...

[@pravda999]

Mike B Three month warranty?. Avoid!

[@andrewmountainpike8264]

How fantastic! Wishing everyone at brit wind a bright future. Thank you

[@hafunland894]

Wow those are high quality wind turbines, very impressive!

[@nathu3773]

These small companies are just awesome and phenomenal.

[@simonwells2213]

I was wondering only today whether a hamlet like ours should be erecting a collective wind turbine.... and here I the video!! It must be fate 🙂 and the factory is 12 miles away 😁

[@bondubasher]

I really love the fact we have some home grown engineering companies at the cutting edge of these subjects!

[@Geshmaal]

Quick tip - units are case-sensitive, so by putting mWh you were saying milliwatt hours as opposed to megawatt hours (MWh).

[@UAPJedi]

Thank you been looking for a small British made turbine 👍

[@paulwood2329]

I have faith in our country's ability to do well. We will be world leaders in all sorts of ways. I'm really pleased to see this English company making English made products and selling worldwide goods.

[@Euphidides]

Brilliant design of product and great video. Anyone have data on the cost of each unit and cost to install?

[@cathallawlor989]

Euphidides perhaps on their website I'm guessing

[@UppsalaHenrik]

Nope, no info on the website. They are probably avoiding the cost comparison with solar very carefully. The claim that they are 3 times more "efficient" than solar matters little if the cost is 5 times higher...

[@cathallawlor989]

Henrik Bjugård Nyberg Oh ok there's propbaly why

[@ShawnVanden]

Of course, Wind has the capability of blowing 24hrs, the Sun, not nearly as much (depending upon your vicinity to the equator) If properly engineered, on open waterways or at higher, unimpeded elevations, Wind is the preferable solution.

[@johnbenton4488]

One of these bigger ones, situated on the triangle of grass would power both streets on the estate where I live. 3 of them would power the entire estate. And we have the land to site them on!

[@oflaviolombardi]

Congrats for the company Dale!

[@edpec]

Dale Vince is not quite right in saying that turbines with a gearbox should spin at the same wind speed. Normally the arrangement in modern turbines will consist of a gearbox driving a high speed shaft connected to a DFIG (doubly-feed induction generator) plus a converter. This together allows the generator to spin at a frequency different to that of the grid

[@seremetvlad]

Thank you very much, Robert! Your videos give me hope...

[@ewadge]

These are pretty neat turbines. I would imagine that they would make a lot of sense dotted around farms and villages.

[@bipolatelly9806]

I like this guy! No bullshit! A rarity on this show....

[@shadowdance4666]

I personally grow predominantly peppers, celery and curly lettuce some tomatoes 🍅. My cucumbers 🥒 failed to get started. Way too much rain. Brilliant work on those windmills

[@EForrest88]

bare warehouse roofs right next to solar panel fields is a bugbear of mine too Bobby! Didn't realise the size of the difference in power generated between domestic wind and solar though.

[@GrrMeister]

*It amazes me that a huge Wind Turbine (only by 5m smaller than the London Eye) 130 metres tall (590 Feet) built near me in a Valley Rotates Most Days. Can be seen from my house (Severn Trent Water) Each turbine generates enough electricity to power around 1500 homes. So it's not just for on Hills*

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

What a great company. Helping us all to have cleaner air and cheaper electricity. Great people do this kind of things

[@MrSummitville]

The electricity may not be cheaper...

[@alphasxsignal]

Good for them making all the parts for it.

[@hsparent]

The first one looks like the project I have left over in my shed from when I taught engineering in high school! Keep thinking I’ll finish it and put it into service. They are not hard to produce.

[@rhiadmarhes9291]

The main point to take away from this video is that you need as big arms as possible on your turbine since doubling the arm length quadruples the power output (square relationship).

[@MrBorceivanovski]

Great work and I agree The sea is made by drops of water!

[@sphinx2k210]

5:11 Omnivore eats both meat and veggies, Carnivore only eats meat and nothing else!

[@fullychargedshow]

Thank you for correcting my error. I always learn from critical comments, as long as they're not abusive. Our dog is a 'vomnivore' because.... well, you can imagine. EEeuuuuuw.

[@sphinx2k210]

Unless you do really eat a 100% meat diet of course :)

[@rachelwolfe9151]

Ralph Zimmermann I'm very sorry if you googled "vore".

[@rachelwolfe9151]

My point was there's a fetish called vore I thought you might find. If you didn't, good job.

[@ruthwangeci5449]

Jimmy B# I've been researching into battery repairing and discovered a great website at Jons Mender Guide (check it out on google)

[@macronencer]

Just signed up with Ecotricity and on the brink of leasing a BMW i3 REx. All down to your channel. Thank you, and I'm proud to support you on Patreon!

[@lukepeacham9663]

This is great for us uk folk who get little sun but lots of wind. We need a small one in each garden and we can fully go off grid. Quite exciting, would we still need a powerpack to store the electricity?

[@vongstudio]

Great video. It's really cool to see how local businesses are making renewables

[@samdeur]

after doing sum research being Dutch i wanted to see if people here bought these awesome little wind turbines. i did find a dutch company talking about other small wind turbines but not these beauties. i did however find a company based in Ireland finally mentioning price ;-) from what i gather the R9000 costs around 30.000 BP

[@Jedward108]

Great to see this kind of hi tech manufacturing in an advanced country.

[@michaeljemery]

This is a great view of the generation side of wind power, but I would have been really interested to see the storage and distribution side too.

[@knoxieman]

Brilliant video as usual, Dale always reminds me of Peter Richardson's character spider webb in bad news for some reason, looking forward to the next video.

[@50sorrowC]

You should do an episode on Minesto - A Swedish based company that is working on underwater kites to harness the power of the currents. They are planning on installing a set of underwater kites somewhere in Whales sometime in 2017!

[@KhanPallob]

Hi there, its good to watch this episode and know about the British made wind turbines. But I guess the video could be much more useful to some audiances if you asked questions like how much it costs, how many years warranty, how long a customer has to wait till they get one etc instead of discussing only the building aspects of the machine.

[@chuzzbot]

Be great to have a small one of these for winter off grid power. No suggestion of cost.

[@geoffreylotz3661]

It's fantastic to see Great Britain making things again.

[@RoobehTunes]

Is that the same Ecotricity that runs the car charging stations?

[@ewadge]

RoobehTunes yes

Is it more expensive than petrol, no.

[@justsomeguy934]

Robert! Puh-lease make a renewable / EV lecture tour in the USA. We desperately need this stuff over here. I'll put you up in Colorado. Your videos are great, they promote UK businesses and I very much appreciate the coverage of renewable energy types. Can you make it to the USA by next week?

[@xxwookey]

Not very low-carbon that. There are plenty on people in the US who know what they are talking about on renewables. Get one of them to come.

[@justsomeguy934]

Robert is the man. He needs to make the tour.

[@MelroyvandenBerg]

Can you tell a bit more about the noise? Make it any loud sounds? Its it really possible to place such a small turbine in the neighbourhood..?

[@reerbaadia1896]

how much is the small wind turbine plz?

[@krusher74]

£30 to 40,000 fully installed and connected www.homebuilding.co.uk/wind-turbines-guide/

[@super117knight]

awesome

[@cskelton3368]

Can you connect them to something like a tesla power wall, that would be very handy for the less windy days

[@christiand2426]

krusher74 so cost is 40,000 and lifespan as stated is 20 years.. so does this even make sense if you’re paying 2,000 a year for this? Repair costs might add and the Powerwall isn’t included yet.

[@phillunrau9972]

...shop around ... on ebay ..only 900 dollars ... the virus is fake .....

[@vincentbarkley9121]

BritWind is on the right track.

[@hightechredneck8587]

Very good video. But one fun fact, regarding the "do they need to keep the grass down" joke, they are now using herds of livestock to renew areas in Africa and by using responsible rotations they are combating and reversing desertification.

[@RichieRouge206]

What an amazing company. I wish more would do this. I would love to live off the grid

[@Milkshakman]

Please do an update video on small/medium sized wind turbines!

[@JoshuaPritt]

Funny AND educational! I laughed the hardest at this video so far. Good job with the carrot graphics, that was pretty funny.

[@andytrewin]

Great job Robert - thank you.

[@michaelblock4397]

A manufacturer of axle flux, I’m glad you have a market.

[@tebonebone]

It would be nice to have some ideas of the costs of these things.

[@THOMASTTWYFORD]

another great episode. always learning. thank you

[@TheMelbournelad]

Aww I get warm fuzzies seeing the old intro

[@samuelsann8219]

i can't put in words how this video was fascinating! but i can say, i want one of those mini wind turbine in my home!

[@grandpaseed]

price and compactness to solar would have been interesting oh= well liked the segment maybe a follow up on the prototype mentioned ?

[@nevillepark4071]

Brilliant one- that! Just putter out to pasture and turn on the lights so the cows can come home!

[@iKaGe01]

Would be interesting to see how legal it'd be to buy one with neighbors and place it somewhere close by but remote. What would the cost of the 5kwh-15kwh one be?

[@nextfitness22]

"but do you need to keep the grass down?".... so much there

[@Sub-Zero-Homes]

PV manufacturers SunSolar are British and have both a 25 year warranty on linear output degradation and product warranty. Many have 25 years for linear drop in production of no more 0.6% per year for instance but not 25, usually 10 years on the actual product.

[@wheeinshair5415]

As always great stuff , Rob.

[@TheLateBrakeShow]

I want one of these baaaaadly

[@DanielRoeske]

I think it would be a great idea to combine such a turbine with a heat battery from last episode.

[@shariif]

Smelly vision I like that quick invention of words

[@richij]

Um, how much to they cost?

[@tahaistheboss98]

Richi Jennings less than obtaining energy from the grid

[@richij]

Capex vs. opex == apples vs. oranges

[@danieldimitrov7248]

To much ..... just buy them from China, it will be much cheaper 99% no difference in the quality.

[@andymckee53]

£31,500 for the cheapest model. Yep WAY too much.

[@tahaistheboss98]

Andy McKee jesus, it's weird that the european nations don't lower the prices for the consumer as an encouragement for enviromental protection

[@myboatinghabit6035]

Here is the interesting problem in England, look at the paperwork involved in trying to get solar, wind and an air source heat pump at the same property

[@alcoste1]

My Boating Habit it’s a bloody nightmare in Ireland too. Pay XY AND Z in paypaper work costs and we’ll think about letting you install one. Such a headache .

[@Alrukitaf]

How about a story on vertical axis wind turbines?

[@WhatsOnTodayDad]

31k Pounds for wind turbine which cost max 1500 pounds in retail? Company Hipar Ecorate produces 3kW turbines which has pick power 5kW for 3k Pounds made in Poland.

[@alt4523]

Unquestionably Vince's comment about Eastern Europeans is derogatory in nature. The reaction of the host of fully charged in general and the childish giggles are totally inappropriate. I am startled by this preposterous interplay. I can't see any humour in this at all. Vince is actually an ageing fucker who dumped his wife and neglected his son without a shadow of gilt. We need less people like Vince in the UK and more Easter Europeans immigrants if we are ever to make Britain great again!

[@BXJ-mi9mm]

@@alt4523 He is British. That is normal. They still often think they are better than everyone else.

[@xperyskop2475]

Any links to this company. Thanks

[@GrrMeister]

@@alt4523 *Sure let 'em all in why not, 300,000 per Year no problem, just build a City size of say Nottingham each year. Loads of Green Field's can easily be turned into vast housing estates. And as far as Schools, National Health etc - all FREE TODAY.*

[@phillunrau9972]

..just stop 5g etc ...

[@nicevideomancanada]

I think we'll be importing some of these into Canada unless Canadian companies spring into action.