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Roger Brown
Home wind kits are a great way to get free energy at your house. Wind energy is pretty much available everywhere and there are always at least a couple of options for where to locate the turbine on most properties. The exciting thing about making wind energy at home is that you have the opportunity to make free power. In a world with rapidly depleting fossil fuel energy resources, this is a pretty liberating concept. You can literally harness this energy source that is moving around your house every day with no one claiming it. The first thing you need to do is decide how you will use the power your turbine generates. This is not an easy question to answer and I recommend you spend a good bit of time sizing up your options and the amount of power you have available before you make any serious inquiries into specific wind turbine products. As it turns out there are a number of things you can do to use your power - ranging from the simple to the more complicated. Some options you can do yourself and some will require outside electrical assistance (unless you happen to be one yourself…) Here are the 3 best ways to make use of home wind kits at your house: 1. Charging a bank of batteries 2. Operating a small pump or other standalone device 3. Exporting power to the electricity grid Battery charging is a great way to begin saving energy money using a wind turbine. The battery can be used to back up a critical piece of equipment or just be on ready for if the power goes out. Also, you can link your home wind kit to one piece of equipment. Pumps work well for this application. If you are really ambitious, you can think about connecting your windmill to either the utility's electricity grid or to your house. I say this is an aggressive strategy because it involves using the services of an electrician experienced with tying-in the windmill to a system with a different voltage. If you do want to export the power you make to the electricity grid, you can get paid for it by the power company. You have to have a special "net energy" meter to measure what you send back to the utility. Then, they will credit you at their "avoided cost" or, their real-time cost to generate power at the time you exported them the electricity. (Keep in mind though, "avoided cost" is less than what you pay for power.) In conclusion, there is a lot you can do with the power you can make with home wind kits. Before you look at the specific turbines you might buy, you should look carefully into the things you can do with the power.
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