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bear the kind of business world where you cannot trust one another
and where disagreements end up in a law court. A sub-contractor
had several times used non-authorised materials for the blades
which consequently had to be replaced. They were also tired of
windmill customers who would call in the middle of the night
and complain about the windmill, even when the problem most
likely was lack of wind, says Ole Hansen.
But how did Ole Hansen become a manufacturer? In 1976
there were only two commercial manufacturers to choose among:
Riisager and Borre. Now it turned out, at an exhibition in Skive,
that the Borre windmill could not turn itself. An electric motor
made it go round, revealed Ole Hansen. His next move was to buy a
Riisager windmill, “the perfect windmill”, as claimed in a topic about
wind energy. But it was a disappointment.

Figure 16.16 Kongsted nacelle displayed at the Folkecenter Collection of

Wind Energy.