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Going Green With Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Going green with vertical axis wind turbines? It’s everywhere. On the news, in the magazines and newspapers, you see people and companies that are going green. Everyone wants to know how to get cheaper power. Doing a basic search on the Internet finds hundreds of videos made by [...]
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Wind Generators For Home Use – Power Inverters and Completion
Posted by admin on May 26th, 2011
Wind Generators For Home Use – Power Inverters & Completion We’re almost there! This is part 5 and the final section of our tutorial on how to build a wind turbine so lets get cracking. Next, you’ll need a way to use the power generated by the wind turbine. This is where the AC inverter [...]
Homemade Wind Turbine Charge Controller
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2011
Homemade Wind Turbine Charge Controller In part 4 of our tutorial on how to build a wind turbine we’re moving on to connecting the DC motor to our homemade wind turbine charge controller. This is the unit that runs everything, controlling and monitoring the batteries in your wind turbine. It is in charge, so to [...]
DIY Wind Turbine Generator and Mount
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2011
DIY Wind Turbine Generator & Mount In part 3 of our tutorial on how to build a wind turbine we move on to the DIY Wind Turbine motor. It’s a quicky, but important. Now, unless you’re highly technically gifted, you’ll probably want to keep things simple, at least for your first try in building a [...]
How To Build A Wind Turbine Blades and Hub
Posted by admin on May 12th, 2011
How To Build A Wind Turbine Blades and Hub The first order of business in part 2 of our tutorial on how to build a wind turbine involves building the wind turbine blades – and hub. For the wind turbine blades the most cost-effective way is to purchase some PVC pipes from your local hardware [...]
Wind Turbines For The Home Tutorial
Posted by admin on May 8th, 2011
Wind Turbines For The Home – Overview You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on purchasing wind turbines, just so that you can experience an environmentally friendly home and save money on power consumption. This tutorial series will show you how to build your very own DIY wind turbines for the home. The basics [...]
How Wind Turbines Work
Posted by admin on May 8th, 2011
How Wind Turbines Work – An Overview We’ve finally gotten ourselves organized and have put together a tutorial series on building diy wind turbines for the home, but before we launch into that we thought it would be helpful to provide a summary on how wind turbines work. This isn’t intended to be an exhaustive [...]
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No Comments »Wind Power Pros and Cons
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2011
There are conflicts among people regarding the use of wind power. Both sides have their opinion on why people should go for or abandon the idea of using wind power as an energy source. Each side have legitimate reasons for thinking the way they do and to be able to come up with sound judgment [...]
Posted in Wind Power Tags: small wind turbines for home, wind power, Wind Power Pros and Cons 1 Comment »Small Wind Turbines For Home Use
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2011
Because of the increasing cost of electricity, a lot of people are trying to find other means of producing electrical energy. Wind energy is one of the best sources of energy available because it does not produce pollution like other sources such as fossil fuels. But some people think that if you are going to [...]
Posted in Wind Power Tags: small wind turbines for home, wind turbines, wind turbines for home No Comments »Wind Power Facts And Solar Power Facts
Posted by admin on November 27th, 2010
Wind and solar power sources are increasing in popularity because unlike the competition– fossil fuel and nuclear energy—they leave little waste product that can harm the earth. We want you to learn more about these interesting sources of renewable energy so we’ve found a tidy little collection of wind power facts and solar power facts: [...]
What Are The Practical Benefits of Using Wind Electricity?
Posted by admin on December 20th, 2008
Ever seen one of those wind turbines gently fluttering about in someone else’s home or near an office space? Those are not installed there for decorative purposes. Those turbines (ranging from the very whimsical looking to the industrial sized ones) are there in order to make wind electricity. Some people create wind electricity via the [...]
Wind Generator For Your Home Anyone?
Posted by admin on December 14th, 2008
Wind power is such a novel idea that many people (true enough) still balk at the very thought that they can create wind generator devices on their own. With a whole range of do-it-yourself wind generator products being offered out there (complete with technical support too) anyone can build wind generator and turbines on their [...]
Posted in Wind Power Tags: build wind generator, create wind generator, dependable energy, free electricity, harness the power of the wind, harness wind power, kinetic energy, low watt electrical power, make wind generator, rotating blades, wind generator, wind generator and turbines, wind generator devices, wind generator products, wind power 4 Comments »Advantages Of Wind Turbines At Home
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2008
When deciding whether or not alternative energy resources is something you want to implement as a money saver, one of the obvious questions is what are the advantages of wind turbines at home? The reality is that some of us may be inclined to balk at the prospect of having to construct and implement something [...]
Make Wind Generator Towers For Home
Posted by admin on November 22nd, 2008
Learning how to make wind generator towers at home can be one of the best all-year-round options to get off the grid and have a self sustainable home. Wind power is also one of the most efficient and effective solutions to replacing conventional power. The first step is determining whether your home is a suitable site [...]
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