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Roger Brown
If you want to start saving money fast and do your part for the environment, then a homemade wind turbine may be your solution. With fossil fuels supplies shrinking and lack of a better replacement for them on the horizon, it is becoming clear we each need to craft a solution for ourselves. The easiest place to start taking matters into your own hands is at your home. By making our homes independent power generators, we are beginning to free ourselves from the tether of Middle Eastern oil. When we can all make our electricity at home, the need for foreign oil reserves goes way down. There are 2 simple and proven renewable ways to make home renewable energy happen: 1. Solar panels 2. Wind turbines "Renewable" energy simply means the source of the energy is not finite. With fossil fuels, for years modern societies have pretended they are a limited fuel source. Hydrocarbons were formed millions of years ago and therefore "supplies are limited". Of these 2 most straightforward renewable solutions, homemade wind turbines provide the simplest way to begin getting off the grid. The benefits you will immediately begin to receive are: 1. Lower energy costs Obviously, the less electricity you have to buy from your power company, the lower your bill will be. 2. Help the environment The less electricity that has to be produced by a carbon-producing fossil fuel power plant, the safer and more stable our environment becomes. 3. Wind Energy Tax Credit While the 30% tax credit benefits any move to renewable energy, this automatically makes a wind turbinemuch more affordable. 4. Perpetual source of energy and energy independence You are buying in to a source of energy that won't go away. 5. No more power outages If you aren't connected to the electricity grid, you won't be "without power" when problems with the electricity delivery system. When thinking about a homemade wind turbine though, you need to make sure that your local area or community will allow them on your property. Many communities will not but that is beginning to change. There are really 2 ways you can go: 1. Buy plans and go completely homemade 2. Buy a kit and let a manufacturer do some of the more technologically challenging task of making the mechanisms With the advent of new vertical axis turbines for the home, many communities are now allowing wind turbines. They produce a much lower and less obtrusive profile than the horizontal axis wind turbines that we are used to seeing. In any case, with so many powerful, forward-looking reasons, you cannot go wrong addressing your energy independence by building a homemade wind turbine.
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