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Originally Posted by randen

The next facet was to investigate wind. I purchased a small turbine and have mounted it on a steel pole. I want to study this a little bit to possibly expand this in the coming summer.

Our farm in northern Maine sits on a ridge facing the west, and presumably has decent wind potential. I've often toyed with the idea of using one of those small turbines to tinker with. However, I may just set up one of my Davis weather rigs with an anemometer using an arduino or Raspberry Pi as a man in the middle to scrape data. The anemometer is just a series of contact closures per set period of time. This sort of remotely accessible data may prove useful to determine our potential wind feasibility.

Looking forward to your experiments Randen!