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The benefits of the fiber cement include fire, rot and insect resistance, 30% recycled content (fly ash), and low maintenance. Cedar is esthetically pleasing, renewable, locally sourced, and also rot resistant, but may require slightly more maintenance. Cost is about the same for both.
Has anyone out there had any good or bad experiences with either of these materials? The houses on my mom's street are all sided with cedar lap and shake siding that is almost 100 years old, so it's obviously a durable product, and I definitely like that it's traditional in this area.
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- Joker The Lurcher said...
it has to be cedar! we live in the uk in a cedar shingle house (quite rare here) which was built in 1936. vaarious bits have been renewed when we have done building work and not one shingle has ever been rotten.
the roof is also cedarwood shingle and before we had the house it was renewed. our neighbour's (the other half of what was once all one house) roof hasn't been touched and is still waterproof although they have a lot of moss on it which i would guess would trap damp. the roof has a shallow slope so the water lands in the moss and sits there. with the proviso that you need to keep an eye on the roof i would not hesitate to recommend cedarwood. and it smells beautiful - there is something very nuturing about our house!
i will try and send you a picture but i'm not sure if your e-mail address is on the blog.
- September 25, 2007
- Malva said...
No experience with either but I'd go with the cedar because it's locally sourced and a renewable resource.
- September 25, 2007
- Cheryl said...
Joker - You've inspired me to finally add an email address to my sidebar. I look forward to seing that photo!
I'm reassured to hear that you've never had any rot.
Malva - Thank you for your vote!
- September 25, 2007
- Mary said...
Go with the cedar! Natural products are always number one in my book if cost is the same. And it will smell so much better!
- September 25, 2007
Hi cheryl--i've built 2 houses in rural areas with cedar and yes it is beautiful, but concerns with climate change and forest fires on the increase would make me choose cement/fibre siding now--friends have just built a house in the country using cement/fibre and it is beautidul and durable and fire proof!!
- September 25, 2007
- Carla said...
Is the fiber cement like Hardy Plank? If so, it has a very natural look, very much like cedar siding. I know people who have it who are really happy with their decision, especially since they are in a damper climate. My parents have cedar siding and it is definitely more maintenance. Would you get a discount on house insurance having a fire resistant siding? I know sometimes they do that here. Just another consideration.
- September 25, 2007
- Mary said...
I'd go with the cedar, of course! Our home is made of cedar logs. It's about 40 years old and there are no signs of rot. The appeal of wood is timeless. If all it means is a little more maintenance, and it's traditional to the area - go for it! These are tough decisions, but it will be perfect no matter what you choose. I'm so excited for you guys!
- September 25, 2007
- Michelle Ellis said...
Because I can be a bit lazy, I think the cement\fiber would be my choice.
- September 25, 2007
- The Unusually Unusual Farmchick said...
Looking at the link, it seems there are pics showing the cement/fiber to look somewhat similar to the cedar? is this correct? I would go with the cement/fiber since you are set on amongst trees. Although cedar is beautiful and the scent wonderful, look at safety in this day and age.
my vote is cement/fiber.
- September 25, 2007
- Midlife Traveller said...
I'm going to have to go with the fiber stuff, as I think it would be better insurance wise. Also, cedar seems to be high maintenance. Finally, while I love love love the look of new cedar, I actually don't care much for the grey it fades to (and I've seen it do so unevenly based on how much direct sunlight it receives). If the fiber is of uniform colour (and can be virtually any colour you want) seems to me it's an easier choice.
- September 25, 2007
- The Fool said...
Cedar! It's just so "warm." There may be advantages to the fiber cement...but there's just something about cedar.
- September 26, 2007
- dawn said...
Well, you have probably made your decision already, but I am not one to pass up an opportunity to give my opinion ;-). For us, it would be the fibre cement. The reason: we get so busy starting new projects and living a crazy life, that maintenance on things doesn't always come first. It is a thorn in my side that my husband and I are both negligent in that area, but it is something we have to work with (and work on). That is why we got the metal roof this summer. That is why I am working so hard on my garden and yard to make it as maintenance free as possible. In the mean time it still looks unkempt because it isn't finished. Oh well, there is always next year.
- September 26, 2007
- Steffi said...
I would prefer the fiber cement too.You can change the coloure if you want it and I think this material is living much more years longer as cedar wood and maybe more waterproof.
- September 27, 2007
- kim S. said...
I think I will not be much help as I like both products. The cedar can last a very long time depending on your climate and it is natural. I know a contractor who installs the cement product and he feels it is a superior product. It certainly is fireproof, and it looks so natural. The neighborhood where my inlaws live has a lot of new homes sided with the cement and they are beautiful. They fooled me. I actually had to touch the siding to tell if it was wood or not.
- September 28, 2007
- Kristi said...
The problem with cedar is that it's the old-growth that is so durable. It used to be that a cedar shake roof would last you at least 30 years. We have problems already with ours at 15 years, in part because the younger cedar trees they're using are more twisted. If you can get truly straight siding, I'd go for it. Our next roof will be composite.
Fiberboard can have its own issues, like the LP siding problems 10-15 years ago. Make certain if you go this way that you get something known to be reliable!
- September 28, 2007
IWe live in a cluster of wood shingle-sided houses 15 miles from town. They look nice, but they're all going to be re-done with cement fiber siding because of fire concerns.
- September 30, 2007
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- Woody said...
We put the hardy board on our house when we built almost five years ago. I'm very happy with the product. I hung most of the siding myself using a coil roofing nailer and had no unpleasant surprises. It holds its color real well, almost no fade. Even on the sunny side of the house. The only thing I would have done different would be using a solid corner board instead of the aluminum trim package. The aluminum looks ok but it does look rather cheap. My best friends house is beautifully sided with cedar. He complains constantly about the woodpeckers, but he complains alot about everything...
- October 05, 2007
- farmer, vet and feeder of all animals said...
We have a number of family members who have the cement board and love it---no termites, not rot etc. We have it on our barn too---nice because it can't rot. So...when your old it will still be low maintenance :-)
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VAWTs with HAWTs
The energy available in the wind is the cube of the wind speed. This physical law means creating small increases in wind speed will result in significant increases in a wind turbine's energy output.
This fundamental physical law of wind energy drives developers to invest in high wind resource sites and to place their turbines where they can harvest the highest velocity wind. It also drives the importance of researching how Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) can be positioned to increase the wind speeds realized by Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs).
A key maintenance and repair difference between VAWTs and HAWTs is that HAWT blades send the vibrations caused by turbulence in the wind to the drive train, causing harmful wear and tear to the bearings and gearbox. Near-ground wind is turbulent, a fundamental reason HAWTs are installed high above the ground. This does, however, leave wind farms with good near-ground wind resources, such as those with hills, ridgelines or mesas, or those set in passes, with an untapped, valuable resource that no HAWT can harvest.
If VAWTs can be installed below and around HAWTs without causing any harmful wake or turbulence to HAWT blades, then the understories of wind farms can be developed. If VAWTs also are able to increase the wind speeds that reach the HAWT rotors above them, the economics and incentives to build out these unharvested resources improve.
Capacity Factor Enhancement
A 1-MW project operating at full power all 8760 hours in a year would produce 8760 MWhs of energy and achieve a 100% Capacity Factor (CF). Most wind farms operate with a CF of 25-35% and produce only 2200-3000 MWhs annually per installed MW. (1)
Including VAWTs among the HAWTs without triggering the need for additional substation capacity is called Capacity Factor Enhancement (CFE). The number of VAWTs that could profitably be installed in such a project depends on:
- The wind speeds at the site and the power performance curves of the HAWTs and VAWTs.
- The wear and tear on the HAWTs and the economic benefits of resting them during high wind events.
- The Power Purchase Agreement for the energy produced, including time of day production bonuses.
- The estimated annual VAWT production that would be lost during high wind speed events when (if) all HAWTs are operating at full capacity.
- The VAWT project savings that come from not having to invest in new land, roads, and infrastructure.
- The potential increase in wind speeds and Capacity Factors that could be realized by HAWTs when VAWTs are installed strategically nearby.
Research and pilot studies will be important to accurately size CFE projects and determine the best way to increase the Capacity Factors of existing wind farms with new VAWTs. WHI has submitted a Research and Development proposal in response to the CEC EPIC Program's grant opportunity GFO-16-310 - Improving Performance and Cost Effectiveness of Wind Energy Technologies. The R&D project is titled "Researching and developing the potential of VAWTs to double capacities of California's wind resource regions while preventing harm to birds – Phase I". This would be a foundational study upon which more research on more site-specific proposed CFE projects can be built.
We are interested in hearing from wind farm owners and others interested in how VAWTs could be used in CFE projects. Let us know your thoughts at email@example.com.
Porous Wind Fence Effect
Wind fences (aka windrows or windbreaks) "slow the wind in one place by deflecting it to another"[1] and thus reduce the wind speed immediately downwind. Generations of land owners have used windbreaks and wind fences to protect their crops and prevent erosion, but it is only recently that science has been brought to bear on the details of the wind flow patterns they create.
Different porosities of a windbreak will affect the wind speed over its top and downwind (see Figure 1). Note that the highest speed-up zone is above and slightly downwind of the "fence." A row of VAWTs is similar to a row of trees, except the porosity of the VAWTs is significantly higher.[2] With a highly porous "fence" of VAWTs, Dr. Marius Paraschiviou predicts that the speed-up effect will occur nearly directly above a 2-4m zone of high turbulence located immediately above the rotating blade tips.[3]
Though Dr. Paraschiviou predicts a speed-up effect above the row of VAWTs, its location and how far it will extend requires field data to validate and model. WHI proposes to use Doppler LiDAR, calibrated in the field with sonic anemometers, to collect high quality wind-speed data immediately above the row of VAWTs.
This field research will provide the data needed to validate a Stanford-created CFD Large Eddy Simulation model that will be able to predict how VAWT arrays of differing solidity and in different configurations could be optimized to create increases in the wind speeds that reach HAWT blades and thus increase their energy output.
The fact that a "fence" of VAWTs increases the wind speed over their tops creates another opportunity of benefit to HAWTs—that increased wind speed creates a zone of lower air pressure. When that zone reaches up into the space directly downwind of the lower sweep of HAWT blades, the differential between the front and back of the HAWT increases and so should the wind speed through its rotor. A setup of two rows of VAWTs around the base of a HAWT, as shown in the figure to the right, may not be possible in some sites where it would interfere with HAWT crane access for repairs. It is an example of how VAWTs could be placed both geographically and vertically to maximize the often narrow space available on ridges, where the near-ground wind shear can disappear, and winds at 10m above ground level (agl) can achieve speeds at at 30- 80m agl.
Vertical Mixing
All objects in the landscape, including VAWTs, create obstacles that block the wind, forcing it to change direction, speed up and swirl around them. When VAWT rotors are in motion, they create three types of downwind wake and turbulence: blade-shed vortices, blade tip-shed vortices, and shear-layer turbulence. This complex flow can increase the wind speeds realized by HAWTs and allow the next row of VAWTs to be placed much closer downwind of another row of VAWTs.
During his years of working on wind farms, Bob Thomas observed the vertical mixing that HAWTs were creating in the San Gorgonio Pass and hypothesized that the addition of VAWTs in the "bush-tree" formation would increase that mixing and bring faster-moving wind into HAWT rotors.
In recent years, a growing body of field data and research, led in large part by Dr. John O Dabiri, has demonstrated how counter rotating VAWTs, when placed upwind of HAWTs throughout a wind farm, would bring higher, faster-moving wind down into the rotors of HAWTs. [1]
"For the vertical axis wind turbines, what you get, especially as you place them in close transverse proximity to each other, is that they can actually interact positively," Dr. Ann Craig said. "Although it is still an active area of research, we think that the VAWTs can have blockage effects causing speedup around the turbines that helps downstream turbines. They can also have vertical wind mixing in the turbine's wake region, which assists in the wind velocity recovery."[2]
Arrays of closely spaced VAWTs enhance vertical mixing mainly due to the vortices of swirling wind produced by their blades that are moving much faster than the wind, as well as by shear-layer turbulence induced by wind flowing over the closely spaced VAWTs in an array. The large, vertically oriented vortices that spin off at the back of the rotating blades produce a low-pressure zone at their center that sucks in higher pressure air from above or below. This, along with the shear-layer turbulence, creates vertical mixing of the layers of slower- and faster-moving wind at different altitudes.
Though the basic physics of vertical mixing are relatively well understood, research will be needed to confirm that VAWT arrays won't cause harmful turbulence to reach the HAWT blades and damage their bearings and drive trains. Wind farm owners and managers will want solid science based "proof" that VAWTs won't cause the repair costs of HAWTs to increase. This can be proven using LiDAR and sonic anemometers to validate CFD modeling. For more information on WHI's research proposal to accomplish this, see Phase I research, below.
Phase 1 Research
Researching and developing the potential of VAWTs to double the capacities of California's wind resource regions while preventing harm to birds
A proposal presented by WHI to the California Energy Commission EPIC Program on June 20, 2017
WHI is seeking grant funding to conduct research on the effects of integrating VAWTs into existing and new wind farms. Before such VAWT developments would be acceptable, verification is needed to ensure that the new, vertically spinning turbines do not create wake and turbulence that damages the HAWTs above and downwind of them. If these wind farms include habitat of rare and endangered birds, then third-party collected data will be needed to demonstrate either that the VAWTs won't harm these species or that they can be operated safely when these birds and bats are in their vicinity.
In April 2017, the CEC's EPIC Program released a grant opportunity entitled "Improving Performance and Cost Effectiveness of Wind Energy Technologies." In response, WHI is presenting its application that will make innovative use of Doppler LiDAR, sonic anemometers and computational fluid dynamics Large Eddy Simulations (CFD LES) to map out and model the wake and turbulence that result from closely spaced pairs of WHI's G168 VAWTs.
At the same time, the grant will fund the evaluation of the DTBird detection and video recording technology that can rapidly and inexpensively increase the data on what happens when birds are in the vicinity of VAWTs. This first round of basic research conducted with a field "mortality study" should lead to a solid understanding of how well the camera technology can work in detecting birds before they can fly into harm's way.
Schematic of LiDAR vertical scanning geometry for near wake measurements. Not drawn to scale.
The proposed project will be conducted primarily on a ranch north of Hwy. 12, adjacent to the Solano Wind Resource Area (WRA) in Northern California. First, a pair of G168 VAWTs, followed by another pair, would be installed in 2018 to create a 280kW four-VAWT array.
The area north of Hwy 12 to Dixon has a height restriction, preventing the installation of turbines with blade tips exceeding 100 feet above ground level because of aviation concerns of nearby Travis Air Force Base. Nearly 100 square miles of some of the windiest land in California could be opened up to many rows of VAWTs that can easily keep the tops of their blades below 100 feet above ground level.
A smaller part of the project will take place at UL's Advanced Wind Turbine Testing Facility to evaluate the effectiveness of the DTBird motion detection system's ability to video record bird activities around the VAWTs. The recorded video will also provide an additional year of field data on how non-endangered hawks and birds of prey that are plentiful in this region of Texas react to the VAWTs.
The objectives of the proposed R&D project include:
- Doppler LiDAR and 3-D sonic anemometers will produce the data needed for both an empirical analysis and CFD Large Scale Eddy modeling on how wind speed and turbulence changes after moving around, over, through and downwind of counter-rotating pairs of 70 kW-sized VAWTs.
- Modeling and analysis to help assure HAWT owners that a VAWT array can be safely placed a distance upwind (to be determined by Phase I research) or a short distance downwind of their turbines. A Phase II project could then take place among the HAWTS in the 1000 MW Solano or 700 MW San Gorgonio Pass WRAs to begin analyzing HAWT-VAWT wake interactions.
- Data on the "porous wind fence" speed-up effect that will help model the extent above a VAWT array that the effect lasts and where it is the strongest.
- Data and analysis on how birds interact with VAWTs and whether the DTBird motion detection and recording technology can be relied upon to accurately record whether the turbines harm wildlife.
Project Team
WHI is pleased to have assembled an excellent team of scientists to collaborate on this proposal.
Drs. Craig Clements and Neil Lareau, San Jose State University, LiDAR
Joe Drennan and Eric Jepsen, Garcia and Associates, Bird research
Dr. Sanjiva Lele, Stanford University, CFD Large Eddy Simulation Modeling
Kevin Wolf, Chief Operating Officer, WHI, and Project Manager