Home Wind Turbines--How To Build A Wind Turbine

Title: Home Wind Turbines--How To Build A Wind Turbine

Author: John Mowatt

Article:
In the USA natural gas was the biggest source of new energy in
2007. This was followed by wind energy power production. At
years end 2007 wind turbines were producing in excess of 16000
megawatts of electric power and about one third of that capacity
came on line in 2007. Big commercial turbines produce most of
this power but an increasing amount is coming from the small
turbine owned by individuals. The home wind turbine is the wave
of the future as people take steps to reduce their use of power
produced by fossil fuel burning generators. A major source of
atmospheric pollution is emissions from coal and gas fueled
power plants.

Wind power by comparision is absolutely clean and the only
objectiion to it,voiced by some people,is visual pollution from
the arrays of wind turbines necessary for large scale power
production. However the residential wind turbine poses no such
problems. Small scale wind power generation is acheived with
small and unobtrusive home wind turbines. A combination of home
solar panels-wind turbines can produce much of the power
required by the average home. Small wind powered turbines are
manufactured by a number of companies and can be readily set up
either as a rooftop wind turbine or mounted on its own small
tower. The recommended tower height is about 30 feet. These are
relatively expensive but will pay for themselves in the course
of time.
If you know how to build a wind turbine your home wind turbine
will cost much less and fortunately this is fairly easy to do.
Plans and instructions showing how to build your own wind
turbine are readily available and thousands of people have built
their own home made wind turbine. You will often be told that
strong winds are needed for wind power generation. This is
absolutely not so. Even gentle breezes will produce power which
is stored in batteries till needed.

If you live far from electric power lines you either get by with
no electric power or generate your own. Gasoline powered
generators will do the job but they are expensive to run and
heavy polluters. You may be fortunate enough to have a stream
which can generate power for you using a water power system but
these are usually difficult to build and expensive. The best
answer is a wind turbine in most cases. You can in fact build
your own wind turbine for much less than the price of a
commercial model. You could install two or three of them and
have plenty of power for all purposes. Building your own home
wind turbine is a fairly simple project which the average home
workshopper can easily manage. Wind power reduces atmospheric
pollution and will save you money.It is the coming thing for the
immediate future. Why not try it?

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