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The 800 KVA BEST-Romani aerogenerator (wind turbine)

Nogent-le-Roi (France) 1955 - 1966

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1950-1955 : The prototypes

The choice of the site

Construction

Access to the site

Establishment of the site

The team

Design features

Comments on the wind turbine

Sights on the wind turbine

Close-ups on the wind turbine

The research station

The toppling of the wind turbine

1959: Record of production

Disassembling the generator

Some figures

Documentation

1966: the scarping

Remains of the wind turbine

Great power wind turbines

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The single official picture of the Nogent-le-Roi wind turbine made at the request of the Direction des Etudes et Recherches of EDF
(End of 1958 or beginning of 1959)
© Techni-Flash Photo L. Masson 140 rue Falguière 75015 Paris.

The use of wind power to produce electricity is a subject in vogue proposed by the ecologist movement.
Many Internet sites in the World and in France are devoted to this subject and my objective is not to discuss here the pro and con.
On the other hand, I have been unable to find (in 2004) any web site reporting the existence, from 1955 to 1966, of the experimental great powerwind turbine at Nogent-le-Roi (France).

By chance, my father, Pierre Jean Cavey (†), who has been engineer at the Bureau d'Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques (BEST) created by Lucien Romani, has been responsible of the Station d'Etude de l'Energie du Vent at Nogent-le-Roi from 1956 to 1960.

It seemed to me that by creating this site, joining together pictures and technical datas gathered by Pierre Jean Cavey more than fifty years ago, could be of some interrest for the visitors.

The information published on this site comes from my father archives and memory. One will excuse the poor quality of the pictures : except for three of them, all are pictures amateur made with the means of that ancien time.

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Techni-Flash Photo L. Masson 140 rue Falguière 75015 Paris.
Post cards " La Pie"
Pierre Jean Cavey (†) and Jean-Luc Cavey.

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