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Roger Brown
To build your own wind turbine you only need some basic skills for making or fixing things around the house and some persistence. Without a doubt this project will take a bit of time and require learning about some electrical equipment that you may not be familiar with, but in the final analysis, it is worth the trouble. Why? Because the rewards of taking advantage of your own homemade power are tremendous. The main one being that you can ramp-up and add turbines at any time to displace even more energy you are buying from your local utility. If you need to cut costs at home anytime, you can just build additional windmills since you can make them inexpensively with this skill set. All while you are out working or playing, your homemade wind generator will be making power for you and keeping you from having to buy power off the grid. It will take a bit of free time you might want to spend doing something else but the payoff is worth the work. Here are 3 main motivations that you should look into making a wind turbine of your own: 1. Leave the grid - having the ability to make power at home yourself gives you the flexibility to one day leave the electricity grid and become totally independent. 2. So many options for what you can do with your homemade power - while you can certainly get enough capacity right off the bat to power your house, you don't have to go that far. You can only charge a bank of batteries or just use the wind to supply power for a backup device like a pump. 3. Make your personal difference in the world - each time your turbine blades turn, you are displacing a unit of electricity that doesn't have to be made in a fossil fuel power plant. Maybe the best part of all this homemade wind power business is what you learn in the process of making your device. By getting a handle on how to make electricity at home from the free wind swirling around your house, you are taking charge of your energy future. You know will have a skill that you can use to make ALL your electricity or even export what you don't need or use to the broader electricity grid. In a nutshell, build your own wind turbine and take control of your energy destiny.
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