In Dutch news items on-line the take over of Darwind in The Netherlands by XEMC was announced on 3 August 2009.
Article (in Dutch)
In this article a Korean party is mentioned as well. Maybe this is the same company that took over Harakosan Europe BV.
Both Harakosan Europe and Darwind are working with the direct magnet drive principle designed by Henk Lagerwey (see my previous post on the take over of Harakosan)
So Dutch technology is now in Asian hands. While Dutch Government is looking for good parties to build clean energy technology in their seas, they let their knowledge leave the country....
Interesting to see that the picture used in the article is in fact a picture of one of the first, old models by Lagerwey. in the meantime the wind turbines are a lot bigger and better looking. The Z72 and Z82 (both by Harakosan Europe) are fine looking machines.
Lagerwey Wind is now producing wind turbines of 2 MW and according to their website www.lagerweywind.nl there will be 2,5 and 3,5 versions as well.
See a picture of the 2 MW on their website.
See Mr. Lagerwey in a TV interview in my previous post.
UPDATE:
Another (older) Dutch article about Darwind can be found at the website of Energeia.
UPDATE:
Reaction of Mr. Van den Brekel, CEO Darwind on Energeia website (Dutch)
NRC article about Darwind/XEMC
2 comments:
No need to fuss over spending money in ordering special parts because almost all the parts needed to set up are available at your local home improvement stores. Like copper wiring, solar cells, alligator chips and plywood.
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Well, in the case of these turbines the special parts have to be specially designed, specially made, so I doubt that parts could be bought in a local improvement store. Try buying bearing with a diameter of 2.10 meters.
However, for small wind turbines, Joseph could be right. Maybe there are people out there who want to comment on that?
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