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There’s never been a better time to save money and help out the planet as there is right now.  One way that you can accomplish both is to cut down on the electricity you buy from your electric company, which you can do by producing your own electricity at home.

A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity. What most homeowners don’t know is that building your own wind turbine is something that’s fairly easy to accomplish with the right set of instructions. The parts you will need will usually only cost around a few hundred dollars and you can get them are your local home improvement store.

Before you run out and purchase a manual, though, you want to make sure that installing a turbine is the best option for your location.

The technology of wind turbines has advanced in recent years, but even a small turbine can take up a lot of room. They’re not perfect for every location and you may need a great deal of cooperation from your neighbors, who might consider your new renewable green energy device an eyesore.

Another factor to consider is how much wind you actually receive. Virtually every place on earth gets wind at some time or another, but you will need a brisk wind and you will need to get it often in order for a turbine to make sense for you.

You will need a location to mount your turbine.  They are now small enough so that you can put them right on your roof, but you need to make sure that you don’t have a lot of obstructions that will block the wind such as, tall buildings or trees.  If you don’t have an unobstructed area to mount your turbine, using wind as a source of energy may not be the best option for you.

You won’t need to make any changes inside your home to use the energy generated by your turbine. And of course one turbine won’t be enough to generate all the electricity the average household uses, but it can make a dent in your electrical bill and save you money every time the bill comes.

For many people a using the power of the wind is a great way to go, and you might be one of them.  If you build it yourself you can save thousands of dollars off the cost of purchase and installation. You can’t expect to get completely ‘off the grid’ with one turbine, but you can realistically expect to save quite a bit of money on your electric bill, and gain some cool bragging rights with your neighbors.

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Wind Power is Coming Around.
Wind is not a common source of energy today but soaring coal, oil and natural gas costs and the negative eco-effects of these conventional fuels have ignited a new interest in alternative renewable energy sources. Along with solar power panels and collectors, windmills can now be seen blossoming in fields across the country and are proving to be a viable source of energy as long as there is a constant enough supply of quality wind.

Are Alternative Energy Sources Reliable?
A wind power generator, as the name implies, is technology that makes electrical energy from air currents. As people who live in windy areas of the U.S. know, wind energy is abundant – and free. But is it reliable enough to provide a constant source of electricity – similar to a modern fossil-fueled power plant? The simple answer – no. Harnessing wind energy can be a great addition to an alternative power generation plan (usually paired with solar), but you should always have an alternative (public utilities) as a back-up for those rare times when there is no wind or sun. Of course, before you consider installing a wind power generator, research is in order to determine if the location for the windmill will get enough wind to make the investment worthwhile.

Physics Is Your Friend.
A wind power generator operates by the theory of Conservation of Energy, or more specifically, kinetic energy. Kinetic energy of the wind or airflow impinges upon the rotor blades of the windmill, then is turned into mechanical energy as the generator is spun. This mechanical energy is converted into electrical power by the generator, to be used immediately, or stored in batteries or capacitors. In the early history of wind power, this rotational energy was used to grind grain and pump water.

Wind Power as a Supplement.
As was mentioned above, it may be totally impractical to live off-grid with alternative energy as the sole sources of power for your home, although there are those who do live completely off-grid. To live completely off-grid, you must be extremely efficient with energy use (and storage), and alway be aware of reserves and future needs. For most alternative energy users, wind power is used in conjunction with other sources of electrical power – solar and grid. During good times, many generate excess power and can sell this excess power back to their utility companies.

Location, Location, Location.
There are a few criteria for placing a windmill on your property. Ideally, your home will sit on a good-sized lot in a relatively roomy rural or near-rural development. The tower height that supports the generator can be critical, and research should be done to determine local building codes. Newer and better technology is coming on-line every day that permits installation of power-generating windmills in ever-smaller locations – always do your research and make sure you’re getting the system for your environment.

Technology Here Now.
Making electrical power from the wind is not a new science, rather it is an continually evolving technology based on actual needs. There’s plenty of information – books and other materials – available now on the topics of alternative power generation. Many new sources of do-it-yourself guides have sprung up lately, and some are of good quality.. With this in mind, always do your research carefully and completely before you commit to any particular system. Then, as you watch the blades of your own wind power generator spin, the satisfaction of knowing you did this yourself (with a little help) can be realized.

I’ve looked at some of the more popular plans on how to build your own windmill. What did I learn? Read this review and save yourself a lot of wasted time and money.

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We all need to understand that these home made wind turbine plans as alternative power sources are very important. wind power can relieve the pressure on current energy supplies. It is also a non polluting clean source of energy.

If we hope to retain our natural resources and ensure that we will continue to have energy for the future. A relatively unused source is wind energy. When the wind is blowing we can have a steady flow of electrical energy.

When you build your own wind turbine you are your own energy source and in full control of costs. When you utilize a home made wind turbine plan you will grab wind energy and convert it into mechanical energy which can then be changed into electrical energy.

When you learn how to make your own wind turbineyou will help eliminate or at least reduces the need and dependence on our naturally occurring organic fuels and take us a step closer to relieving the pressure on our environment.

It is relatively inexpensive to have one of these homebrew wind turbines on your property and the cost of startup can be less than two hundred dollars. Small wind turbines for home use can supply electricity for lighting, refrigeration, TV and other household appliances.

Having your own micro wind turbines will allow you to drastically reduce the energy costs utilizing what can essentially be considered no cost electricity.

You will discover a horizontal axis turbine and a vertical axis turbine. The horizontal axis turbines are the more often used and you should think about using these when deciding how to make a wind turbine. The horizontal design places the blade and rotor at the top of a tower.

This design also allows the gearbox and generator to be placed on the ground, making access for servicing more user friendly. This design however may be less efficient because it generates more torque and drag.

You may be asking yourself what is a low cost wind turbine? You can get started under $200. Wind power is safe, clean and renewable. Constructing a homemade wind turbine is not only quite practical, but is also an environmentally friendly answer to suatain today’s energy demands.

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Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #1

Boil only the amount of water you are going to use – by only filling your kettle or pot with the amount of water you actually need every time you will reduce wasted energy in heating more water than you need or use. If your family did this for one week it would save enough energy to light up your house for a day, or run your TV set every evening for a week.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #2

Keep a lid on all the pans being used in cooking – that’s because water will boil around 6% faster in pans with a lid on, thereby saving time, electricity and your money, as well as giving the environment a break.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #3

When you cook in the oven, keep the door closed – nearly every modern oven has a see-through door to let you see what’s happening inside. Use it! Around 20% of oven heat is lost every time the door is opened. If you’re trying to bake a cake, for example, and you keep opening the door to see how it’s getting on, then you are cooking at 80% of the correct temperature, while wasting energy and money!

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #4

Stop using commercial cleaning products in your kitchen – these cleaners are expensive to buy and expensive to produce. You can make your own cleaner from a mixture of vinegar, salt and baking soda. It will clean perfectly, and it will contain no toxic chemicals, thereby helping the environment. It will cost a great deal less too. Not convinced? Think about this… We dump some 32 million pounds of damaging toxins down our drains every year, just from household and kitchen cleaning products alone.

Here’s another simple recipe for an all-purpose cleaner, courtesy of Greenpeace:

½ cup pure liquid soap
1 gallon hot water
¼ cup lemon juice
Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #5

Switch from sponges to brushes – if you use one of those sponges with a plastic scrub pad on one side for a week or so you and throw it away and start using a new one – you’re just throwing money away each time you replace it. Consider using something more permanent that will last a very long time, and will get the dirt off too. A good old-fashioned scrubbing brush will do that. It will last for months, if not years, and it can be recycled over and over again.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #6

Stop preheating your oven – you’ve been taught by cookbooks and by following package directions to preheat. You don’t have to pre-heat an oven for every dish, unless for bread and pastries. Just shove the dish in the oven and switch on, setting it at the right temperature. Use that preheat time to cook your food and simply adjust the amount of time down from the package times. Your food will cook just as evenly and you’ll save money in the process.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #7

Eat at home more often – Americans eat out on average around five times a week! Meals that are prepared commercially are costly and many contain chemicals, ingredients, and preservatives that really aren’t good for you. You could find yourself saving around $100 a month from eating more meals at home. By eating more organic foods in the process you will not only save money but reduce the number of hormones and unwanted chemicals entering your family’s bodies.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #8

Eat more fruits and vegetables – you can save around $2,000 a year on health costs on average by simply eating enough fruit and vegetables. Here’s how – the average weighted price of fresh vegetables is around 64 cents per pound and the average weighted price of fresh fruit is around 71 cents per pound. The average price of a pound of beef is around $4.15.

Not only is this healthier for you, but is helps the environment too – A lot of the costs are in bringing the end product to the market. Vegetables and fruit are cheaper to produce. Their production is less harmful to the environment too. Consider also that vegetables are plants and most fruits grow on trees, which both absorb CO2 and give out oxygen. Cattle, pigs and sheep don’t do that. In fact, they do the opposite. Cattle especially produce a lot of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #9

Feed you family pot roast – consider that cooking a chicken in a slow cooker for seven or eight hours uses one third of the energy that cooking it in an oven does. The same applies to any meat you might want to cook, as well as vegetables and whatever else you can think of. If you have cheap electricity at night, which is common in some places, then make use of it to slowly cook something overnight to save even more money.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #10

Feed your family Organic foods – besides reducing the hormones, chemicals, and pesticides from your diet, the carbon dioxide (CO2) effects are dramatic as well. CO2 is captured and stored in organic soils much better and more effectively than in ordinary soils. This makes organic foods much more friendly to the planet. If we grew all our corn and all our soybeans in organic conditions, some 580 BILLION tons of CO2 would no longer be pumped out into the atmosphere.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #11

Stop throwing away food – Americans have a wasteful habit of serving up too much food. This leads to an amazing amount of waste. On average, 30% to 50% of the food we buy gets dumped! And that’s whether we eat at home or eat out. Americans throw away a mind-numbing 14 million tons of food a year! That works out at about 100 pounds a year for each of us just dumped in the garbage can.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #12

Drinking water doesn’t need to come from a bottle – if you buy drinking water in small plastic bottles, you could be throwing away a whopping $1,400 on average every year! Worse than that, only around 5% of the empty plastic bottles ever get recycled. That means 95% of them end up in landfills. Instead, uou could invest around $100 for a multi-stage water filter to fit to your existing water supply. It’s already safe to drink, but this will make it taste great – every bit as good as bottled water, and you’ll save around $1,300 a year on average. If you still need to carry water in bottles, consider using reusable bottles. You can get stainless steel water bottles, for example, that will last a lifetime. Consider this: Americans burn some 1.5 million barrels of oil every year just to produce all the plastic bottles of water we use. How many cars would that power for a year? Around 100,000! That’s the number of cars in a fair-sized city.

Energy Efficient Kitchen Strategy #13

Put a sink faucet aerator to the kitchen sink – this will reduce the amount of water you use. Some 15% of the average household’s water consumption goes on faucet use. A faucet aerator provides water under increased pressure, but less of it, so it does a similar job. It gives you a needle spray pattern that’s actually more efficient too. Cost to buy? Minimal. Benefit to your pocket and the environment? Immense!

Those are just a few of the many energy saving options you can easily incorporate into your daily lives. Just remember that it doesn’t have to cost you a lot to save you a lot when you make your kitchen more energy efficient. Obviously upgrading your kitchen appliances will help save you money as well, but that’s a whole different article.

Help Others Save Energy

One way you can help other is to become an Energy Auditor. If you’ve ever thought about having a “Green Career” now is a great time to get started.  The Energy Audit Institute is now offering online training programs in Home Energy Auditing. You can get trained and certified in this “in-demand” career field in about about 2 weeks for less than $250. Learn more about getting started at the Energy Audit Institute.

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Wind power is for sure a very prospective alternative for green energy source. If you ever consider to use it to power your house, first thing first please consider the location where you live.

A windmill solution obviously requires wind. To be specific, you will need wind speeds more than 8MPH on average. But even 8MPH is considered a low-wind-speed area for wind turbines. 12MPH average is ideal.

Start your search by checking wind speed charts that fit your area:

If You Live in the USA:  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/wndspd.txt If You Live in Canada: http://www.wunderground.com/global/Region/CN/WindSpeed.html If You Live in the UK or Europe: http://www.xcweather.co.uk If you live in Australia: http://www.wunderground.com/global/Region/AU/WindSpeed.html

Assuming that the average wind speed in your area is above 8MPH, then continue on to the other considerations listed below.

If you don’t live in a suitable area, then you should consider a solar power conversion instead.

Wind Turbine Considerations

Once you’ve determined that wind power is suitable for your area there are a few other things you need to consider.  Really this is just about asking some questions and then answering them. Taking the time to do so will ensure you choose a wind power system that fits. Especially if you are planning to live off the grid, you should take the time to answer these questions before you start.

Here are the questions you need to ask yourself:

Your Power Needs

The first thing that needs to be considered is your power needs. Are you simply looking to reduce your power bill with a single small windmill? Or, will you want to power your entire home?
If you’re looking to power your whole home, you should take the time to calculate your actual power requirements. If you take the time to download Earth 4 Energy, their guide comes with a calculator and instructions on how to do this (you’ll need this guide anyway).

Storing Power fwind powerurbines

After answering your first question you then need to consider building a storage system for your wind turbine. A simple array of batteries can be designed to store as little or as much power as needed.
If you’re only building a small wind power solution to reduce your power bills then this is likely less of a concern.
On the other hand if you’re looking to live off the grid, you will need to consider energy storage. You should use your calculation for your power needs to design this part of your system. Take into consideration how much power you will need to store and for how long.

If you have weeks where there is less wind than usual, ensure that you have a large enough battery array to compensate (or better yet work to reduce you energy needs by using high efficiency bulbs and appliances).

Having a Backup Plan

Finally, for those who plan to live entirely off the grid, you should consider your backup plan. For most of us consistent power is a requirement. Ensure that you design your wind turbine solution with a backup plan. Generally a small gas generator is enough to ensure you have power if something goes wrong.  

You might want to check more to guide you step by step on converting to green energy with this green-power easy guide, the so far best DIY green power available.

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