Acknowledgements
The authors wish to express their thanks to the following people and
organisations:
EWB-UK (Engineers Without Borders – UK branch) – for providing funding for
volunteer placements to carry out this work.
SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya) – An NGO based in the Philippines,
who have provided help and support to implement a prototype 1kW wind
turbine, including all the work presented within this guide.
Hugh Piggott – general guru and god of hand-built wind turbines.
VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) – For providing funding for volunteer
placements to help carry out this work.
World Bank – for funding the prototype 1kW wind turbine project.
Rich Harrison, Ben Hicks, Matthew Lewis and Marc Brinkmann and their
supervisor Dr Mike Clifford of The University of Nottingham, UK – for their
input on blade testing procedures.
Practical Action (formerly ITDG) – for publication of the fibre-glass wind
turbine blade guide, along with other useful publications.
The people of Sitio Buli, Cabra Island, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines – for
allowing a prototype wind turbine with fibre glass blades to be installed within
their community, for putting up with our attempts to get the system running
and for their generosity and hospitality whenever we have visited the site, no
matter what problems there have been.
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