A while ago, my sister Mariclair sent me a link to this manual for a Telescoping RV Tower. Rich, who together with M.C. runs O’Connell Solar – and designed our own RV’s solar energy system – had just spent three days at Southwest Windpower and thought it would be cool fodder for the blog. Cool indeed.

I looked into it further and discovered the tower is designed for using the Air X Marine small wind turbine with an RV.

Then when we were getting a tour of Tugboat Margot from my brother in law Tim back in Troy, NY, I noticed an Air X mounted on a boat docked nearby and filmed it in action.

While this particular tower mount wouldn’t work with our rig without some serious modification, seeing the wind generator do its job got me thinking…

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