subject: Generate Electricity Off-Grid At Home With Solar Panels And Windmills [print this page] Generate Electricity Off-Grid At Home With Solar Panels And Windmills
To generate electricity off-grid at home with solar panels and windmills must be the dream of just about everyone throughout the world. It's not attractive just to people who are interested in saving money. Nor those who have a strong need for independence. It has a more fundamental appeal to humans. It simply makes sense.
What could make more sense in this current climate than to harness natural free energy? Not just because it's free but because it is totally environmentally friendly. There may be a small environmental impact related to some aspect of the manufacturing process of solar panels as well as windmill. But it is tiny compared with the positive contribution that using them has on the ecosystem.
Mains electricity is generated primarily by burning fossil fuels, by nuclear power, or by hydroelectric systems. Only the latter is a truly green technology. Only the latter carries no risk of causing directly of indirectly an environmental catastrophe. But the latter is limited by a lack of many suitable locations.
So the "bad" ways of creating electricity just must be replaced. Generating your own electricity is a definite answer to this problem. Cost is a factor. The costs of installing small systems for families and groups are falling fast.
Nearly every week there are reports of technological breakthroughs in the solar panels field. And only in these last few months have completely revolutionary new windmill designs been unveiled. The pace is accelerating.
These solar panel breakthroughs mean much more electricity for less money. The same is true of windmill technology. Hardly a day goes by without a new revolutionary idea. So the idea, once "pie in the sky", to generate electricity off-grid at home with solar panels and windmill is not just a nice aspiration. It is now becoming more and more viable by the day.
