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Roger Brown
With all the available products on the shelf out there, why would you build your own wind turbine? Since our goal as a nation and as a world community is to deploy renewable energy as soon as possible, anything that will delay that deployment works against that goal, so this is a good question to ask. There is no question really that all of us will eventually be benefiting from power created by renewable resources like wind and solar power. The fossil fuels that we have relied upon for most of this century are a finite resource that we know one day will be gone - or, at least too expensive to continue to harvest with current methods. We know we need to be rolling out renewable energy production in a big way. That cannot happen too soon. We don't know how long the oil in the Middle East will last. Saudi Arabia always says there is plenty left but we know oil fields tend to last 40-50 years and their big ones are that old now! However, there are a number of strengths embedded in the exercise of making your own windmill at home. In particular there are 3 that should clarify if this is the right thing for you to do personally: 1. Building anything yourself will be cheaper than letting someone else build it for you 2. When you make something with your own hands there is a greater sense of pride of ownership - there's no one to blame but you if your creation doesn't work 3. It is a good "forced" education about the science of how to get the most out of your windmill We have to look on our energy future positively though. It is not all gloom and doom unless we fail to act. While buying readymade windmills right off the shelf would certainly be more time efficient, we are still being dependent on the factories that manufacture the turbines and the fossil fuel generated power that runs them. By making your own power generating equipment at home you will be obtaining a skill set that can make you immune to the politics and the confusion of the current world energy situation. In conclusion, you need to be committed to the project's eventual completion if you want to build your own wind turbine. But, if you are willing to invest some time and energy, you will be learning a skill that can serve you in the future. It is a survivalist skill.
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