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Southwest Windpower’s Air X Wind Turbine Featured in New Book

Wind turbine among life-improving humanitarian products in ‘Design Revolution: 100 Products that Inspire’ People by Emily Pilloton

Flagstaff, Ariz. –Air X, a small wind turbine by Southwest Windpower, is included in this groundbreaking book about products that improve the lives of people around the globe. Air X is part of Southwest Windpower’s AIR series of turbines, which are the best selling small wind turbines in the world, with more than 100,000 units sold.

Southwest Windpower’s co-founders David Calley and Andy Kruse founded the company in 1987 because they recognized a need for a small, reliable battery charging wind generators in rural areas of the world.

Because the Air X is a reliable, portable, and simple to install system, it is widespread in developing nations where the electric grid is unreliable or nonexistent. Air X turbines power countless remote homes, villages, schools, clinics, boats, offshore platforms and other off-grid applications.

About the Book
Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People by Emily Pilloton features more than 100 contemporary design products and systems such as safer baby bottles, a high-tech waterless washing machine, low-cost prosthetics for landmine victims, Braille-based Lego-style building blocks for blind children, wheelchairs for rugged conditions, sugarcane charcoal, universal composting systems, DIY soccer balls--that are as fascinating as they are revolutionary. This exceptionally smart, friendly and well-designed volume makes the case for design as a tool to solve some of the world's biggest social problems in beautiful, sustainable and engaging ways.

About Southwest Windpower
Flagstaff Arizona-based Southwest Windpower is the world’s largest producer of small wind generators (400-3000 watts). The 22-year old company has pioneered the development of wind technology and has produced over 160,000 generators that provide power to residential homes, remote cabins, telecom transmitters, offshore platforms, water pumping and sailboats. Southwest Windpower distributes in more than 88 countries.

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Contact:
Miriam Robbins
Southwest Windpower
+1 928 779 9463
miriam@windenergy.com

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Southwest Windpower’s Air X Wind Turbine Featured in New Book