For the Cost of an iPhone, one can now buy a wind turbine that can power your house for a life time.
Two Brothers(Arun and Anoop) from Kerala India, and their initiative Avant Garde Innovations have created a wind turbine that costs around the same price as an iPhone.
This is massive
Firstly its clean energy, which is always a winner - secondly its affordable not only for the rich and powerful.
Many Third world countries still have a large amount of their population without electricity
These initiatives will be able to solve this problem, from crowd sourcing hundreds of thousands could be purchased to create electricity for all, for a fraction of the cost of creating new power plants ( which have massive running costs)
What about the size of these windturbines
Well these wind turbines are fairly small, about the size of a ceiling fan.
They generate 5 kWh/kW per day, and a small cost of $750
The company's what we do policy is
Our goal is to eliminate energy poverty, reduce dependence on struggling state power grids and create energy self sufficiency for all the needy ones through distributed, localized and affordable renewable energy. In doing so, we believe we can collectively usher in our world a cleaner environment, new economic prosperity and social change
Our first offering is a highly affordable small wind turbine suitable for residential, commercial, agricultural, village electrification and other uses, which is aimed for a market launch during 2016.
It's Cheap, Green, Averagely sized. This is a winner
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