Wind Power Electricity - Generate Your Own!

Wind power electricity is the ideal modern power source - it's free, it's plentiful and it does not harm the planet. Many people think that generating their own electricity at home is expensive or complicated to set up. It need not be, you just need to know how.

More and more people these days are interested in generating their own electricity. Increasing fuel bills, energy supply instability and a keen desire to minimise the damage we inflict upon our planet are all good reasons for this. However, most people fall at the first fence - deciding how to start.

The main options for generating your own electricity are:

• Hydroelectric. If you have a stream flowing through your garden, you may be able to hook up a water mill connected to a generator, and get your energy free from the water. Unfortunately not many of us are this lucky!
• Solar panels. These are definitely something for the future. Great strides have been made in increasing their efficiency over the last few years, and they are viable in some really sunny places. Unfortunately, for most of us the sun is not strong enough and the panels are too expensive to make this a workable solution. Don't completely discount it from your consideration though, as progress is always being made, and there are some places where you can get quite large grants towards the cost of solar panels, which could change the balance. Especially now they make solar cells that look just like roofing tiles.
• Wind turbines. They may be more controversial. Like green vegetables, some people love them, others hate them. But they provide the only viable way of generating reasonable amounts of electricity at a reasonable cost for many people. If you live in an area where the wind blows often enough, you stand a good chance of generating your own wind power electricity.

Wind turbines are a good solution for small-scale electricity generation for three main reasons:

• They are very simple devices really - a simple propeller stuck on the front of a generator, like the one in your car (although that's called an alternator). As it is such simple technology, it is reliable and does not need expensive maintenance every week.
• A relatively small turbine, perhaps with a 9 feet diameter blade, can generate quite a useful amount of electricity. Depending on your needs it could be enough to eliminate your electricity bill altogether, or at least make a significant contribution to it.
• Wind blows all day, every day, normally. Sure you get a few calm days, but you don't lose your power supply every night (just when you need it) or have it reduced in power level every winter (just when you need it!).

Autor: Rob Knowles Rob Knowles
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Generating your own electricity using a wind turbine is, for most people, the most practical way of reducing their dependence upon fossil fuels, and saving some money, and who doesn't want to do that? Learn more about wind power electricity and how you can generate your own, without spending a fortune at http://windpowercost.blogspot.com

2009 Rob Knowles

Added: August 26, 2009
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