Today morning i read in TOI about a gentleman in pune, a retired engineer who after getting fed up by the electricity dept of pune, who have for four months kept a whole village in dark by not repairing a faulty transformer, made a miniature windmill for home use. He created the whole thing from scratch taking help of a fellow engineer and today is the proud owner of a windmill which powers all his light and fan fixtures, all for Rs. 25,000, a very laudable effort. Would love to own one of those babies myself one day.
Also I was wondering, can a miniature fan be attached to the front of rickshaws and a small inverter ( maybe in future with nanomics in power, invisible to the eye?) to power the ricks? I feel a little guilty every time i hire a rick especially when travelling alone, can my vision be worked on? I would love to see golf cart sized vehicles which could be hired and driven individually or by a driver, running on either windmill or solar energy.
( http://www.homewindmill.org )