Okay, I took a minute this afternoon to have a look at your software. I'm also going to preface this by saying that I'm not going to bother responding to any of your responses, because I've wasted enough time on this. I have a ****load of work to do today.
My first impression:
- It's basically a cost analysis spreadsheet made in excel (which is what you said it was)
- You don't input "latitudes and longitudes", you use weather station locations from a drop down menu, which when selected tosses in the latitude and longitude of the station. These stations are mainly airport locations BTW. (I'll admit here I've only used the BC and Alberta locations, I haven't played around with the others.)
In otherwords, for what I'm doing, it's useless. The closest I can get to our land down south is Lethbridge, which is approximately 40km from our site. What am I going to use that info for? I can't even use it for an
approximate cost value! I also see there is a field where the user can input wind speeds at your location...but wait a sec....where do those come from? Oh yeah.....a
test tower on my land. If I need one of those, why would I need your software?? Clearly I don't.
I'll admit it's a neat toy, but come on. It looks to
possibly be aimed at someone wishing to generate electricity for an existing load requirement, (based on the case study it opens with) and who wants to run a cost analysis on them diconnecting from the grid and self generating (hopefully they live by an airport though, because the data won't be useful if they don't). When it comes to someone like me trying to make money on an investment however, there are WAY too many variables in it to even be considered remotely useful, and I can guarantee no investor in his right mind is going to use its information. What investors want is real time wind data overlayed with real time power costs. Your spreadsheet does
some of that, but only after I go out and get the data myself, more or less negating the need for your sheet.
Oh yeah, did I mention there are fields on your sheet for all 3 of my requirements I listed yesterday?
