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The Wind Industry
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Designing Wind Turbines

Wind Analyst (studies wind patterns) They earn approximately $54 to $75 thousand a year!

Wind Turbine Machinist (usually specialise in metal and plastic parts, but also other areas of wind turbine’s structure)

Wind Farm Electrical Services Designer Operator (Makes sure the electrical components of a wind farm operate properly)

Wind Development Director (Massive responsibility for the correct overall functioning of the Wind Farm and oversees well everyone else!)

Wind Power Field Salesperson (You could start as a Representative and work your way up to Sales Manager, maybe even a Executive Position!)

Wind Turbine Drivetrain Engineer (Perform Engineering and Mechanical tasks relating to wind turbines) They make an average of $52 to $62 thousand a year.

Wind Farm Construction Manager (Make $60 to $80 thousand a year!)

Wind Farm Electrical Systems Designer ($30 to $50 thousand a year)

Wind Turbine Generator Builder (Make $15 – $20 an hour)

Wind Power Turbine Installer

Wind Energy Technician (Make $15 – $22 an hour)

Solar Power Industry
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PV Solar Panel Installer

Solar Sales Person (make $43 to $73 thousand a year)

Photovoltaic – PV Solar Designer

Solar Thermal Installer

Solar Operations Engineer

Solar Lab Technician

Solar & PV Installer-Roofer

Solar Fabrication Technician

Photovoltaic PV fabrication Testing Technician

Solar Radiant Heating Installer

Solar Hot Water Installer

Organic Farming Industry
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Horticulture/Horticulturalist

Organic Food Production Worker

Arborist

Permaculture/Permaculturalist

Organic Farmer

Nursery Manager

Landscaping

Organic Poultry Farming

Natural Building Industry
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Star Bale Construction

Sustainable Home Design

Indoor/Outoor Lanscape Architect

Green Interior Designer

The list goes on and on and on!

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4 ceiling fans 400 watts. 7 CFL lights 150 watts. 2 motor pumps 746 watts. One TV 150 watts. Total 1446 watts. 3000 watt gasoline powered generators sell for about $320 USA including tax if you can find a sale. Smaller may cost more and likely cannot supply the starting surge for the pumps. If you need to start both pumps simultaneously, you need 5500 watts or a bit more which will cost about $530, perhaps as much as $1000. 2 kw = 2000 watts likely won’t start either pump even with everything else turned off.
Possibly 3000 watts won’t start the second pump if the first one is running. If you have pump starting problems a possible solution is a 2000 watt (or there abouts) grid tie inverter powered by a battery which you trickle charge from the generator possibly supplemented by a PV solar panel and/or small wind turbine. With the generator running the inverter will think it is connected to the grid, and phase lock with your generator. That will give you 2000 + 3000 = 5000 watts. If you cut the power to one or both pumps, you can turn off the inverter to improve the life expectancy of the battery. Grid tie inverters have an input voltage range, such as 24 to 52 volts, The lower number should be the battery voltage as the actual battery voltage is about 10% more than the battery rated voltage = two 12 volt batteries in series supply about 27 volts to your inverter.
Possibly sme of that is not correct and you should buy about a 2500 watt inverter (not grid tie) with a 5000 watt surge rating. You will need two 6 volt 250 amphour batteries to power it to 5000 watts, and an 800 watt (or there abouts) generator, to charge the batteries when the voltage drops below 6.5 volts on either battery. That may happen frequently unless your wind turbine and/or PV solar panels are rated 1000 watts or more. What is an st generator? Neil

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Well I have just passed legislation that will enable students to receive funds directly from these companies that hopefully will increase interest in projects around the country.

Hope this helps,

George

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You can survey your house and determine the volt-amps (watts) of all the stuff then convert that to kilowatts. Then estimate the time cycles of the frig, the tv computer lights convert that to hours and add it all up. Ex: A 120VAC fridge has a name plate that indicated it pulls 3.7 A. That means 120*3.7 = 444W = .444 kw. If it cycles on and off on average every 15 min (.25 hr) it used .444 kW * .25 hr =111kw-hr. Do that for the TV compoyer lights everything. That will put you in the ball park.

Or You can buy these nice devices that you plug into and that plugs into the wall and measures the amps and totals the kilowatt-hours for any device. Just plug it in and come back later and see what it reads. Go through that for everything and add it all up.

But realistically, the best way is to go to your electrical meter every night at the same time and record the kilowatt hours. The meter totals so subtract today’s reading from yesterdays to get what you consumed the past day. Do this for some time and get an average. Your electrical bill will also have all this information as they read the meter too. So read it and check out how it varies with the season.

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What agent?

These kind of deals are done directly between the manufacturer and the purchaser. ANy “agent” is probably an employee of the manufacturer, and makes a salary with the probability of a year-end bonus based on company profits.

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The shut off speed depends on the design of the turbine. They vary.

If you can get the model number, the manufacturer may give you more information.

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