http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2006/09/28/ireland-energy-authority-studies-vrb-power-system/ Trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2006/09/28/ireland-energy-authority-studies-vrb-power-system/comment-page-1/#comment-668 Anonymous Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:15:16 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2006/09/28/ireland-energy-authority-studies-vrb-power-system/#comment-668 It's kinda sad that Indal, out in Mississauga, has a huge windmill laying on its side in the factory's back yard with trees and such growing up between the blades. A relic of when the subsidies were pulled back at the end of the 70's energy crisis. Indal is big in aluminum, which is what the 200 foot long extrusions that were the blades of this vertical axis wind-behemoth were made from, the metal supplied by Indal's parent aluminum company in India ("Indal"=India+Aluminum) You can see pictures of one of these Canadian-made machines if you Google Images Cap Chat Windmill, it's also seen on Paul Gipe's site gallery. I think the largest was over 300 feet tall. A Canadian export to the world. Now Indal does military contracts, but of the "soft" variety, -not weapons systems. (The military loves aluminum.) I talked to guys there, and they said the engineers relished the project and would stay late to work on it. The day I was there a few years back they also happened to be cleaning out a storage room and throwing out the old trade-show display, so I got a cross section of one of the blades, but I dumbly let the rest of it get tossed. A professor just wrote a technical book (2005) about Vertical Axis machines, and the Indal is featured in that. It’s kinda sad that Indal, out in Mississauga, has a huge windmill laying on its side in the factory’s back yard with trees and such growing up between the blades. A relic of when the subsidies were pulled back at the end of the 70′s energy crisis. Indal is big in aluminum, which is what the 200 foot long extrusions that were the blades of this vertical axis wind-behemoth were made from, the metal supplied by Indal’s parent aluminum company in India (“Indal”=India+Aluminum) You can see pictures of one of these Canadian-made machines if you Google Images Cap Chat Windmill, it’s also seen on Paul Gipe’s site gallery. I think the largest was over 300 feet tall. A Canadian export to the world. Now Indal does military contracts, but of the “soft” variety, -not weapons systems. (The military loves aluminum.) I talked to guys there, and they said the engineers relished the project and would stay late to work on it. The day I was there a few years back they also happened to be cleaning out a storage room and throwing out the old trade-show display, so I got a cross section of one of the blades, but I dumbly let the rest of it get tossed. A professor just wrote a technical book (2005) about Vertical Axis machines, and the Indal is featured in that.

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