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Roger Brown
If you are interested in pursuing wind turbine kits, there are several steps you need to take first before delving in to prices of competing windmills. Many people leap before they consider these steps and end up wishing they had done their homework first. The 2 areas that are often overlooked are: 1. Placement of the wind turbine - in other words, where on your property is the best place to put it in order to maximize the power you can get out of it. You most likely have at least a couple of locations that will work. 2. Zoning restrictions - what does the local government have to say about where and what kind of turbine you install? Looking at your local wind only takes an anemometer and a little patience. You put up the handheld anemometer where you think you might like to install the turbine. If you want to put the turbine at 100 feet in the air though, you must also make sure you put the anemometer that high, too. The wind at different altitudes is very different. The obstacles close to the ground tend to diffuse the air and make it more turbulent. Those conditions are what you are likely to encounter on your roof for example. As far as zoning restrictions go, they can take on various forms. Some communities don\'t have any at all and some want to limit how high you can put your turbine, as well as how far from buildings it must be mounted. Also, some neighborhoods ban wind turbines altogether. This is rare nowadays but just make note that there are some strong feelings still out there about the problems windmills can have. You need to be sensitive to noise and a phenomenon known as shadow flicker that can happen with horizontal wind turbines. Both of these issues can be annoying to the non-wind turbine fans among us. You want to make sure you pay attention to those limits to what you can do very seriously. It would be an expensive mistake to buy something that wasn\'t allowed and you had to send back. In conclusion, wind turbine kits can be the best thing that ever happened to you. You can drop costs and start reducing your carbon footprint quickly. There is no downside to doing some investigation by the way. It is easy to assess your local wind and see how much power you could conceivably produce on your property.
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