Basic design techniques are covered, as well as various fabrication techniques that can be used to manufacture cost-effective and efficient small scale wind turbines. Coverage of aspects related to materials science and engineering, as well as mechanical engineering, is included. Each chapter has solved numerical problems which are used as examples. Additional unsolved problems are provided at the end of each chapter.

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'Flid' is a book about a character. A character with a disability. But forget everything you think you know about disability and meet Kevin. What follows is a moving - and sometimes comic - account of a life lived to the max. No arms, no legs - no problem! Watch as Kevin navigates his way through school, the workplace and university, _breaking barriers at every step. An optimistic and ebullient force, it is only when Kevin unexpectedly finds love again, in later years, that he is called upon to reassess a condition he has long come to accept.