Between 1980 and 1984 I was designing a wind mill with a 7' prop.
I could do the power conversion electronics, but the wife did the computer programming on a borrowed Pet computer for collecting anemometer data, storing on a cassette, and then displaying the wind survey on the little screen.

As the years went by, I realized that "alternative energy" meant "not financially feasible".


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps