subject: DIY Wind Power Electricity Generator for your home [print this page] DIY Wind Power Electricity Generator for your home
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha's times (and even before), wind energy has been used to help us on different daily life activities. Wind energy can be implemented in order to grind grain and even to get water: that's what windmills do. In this case, wind energy becomes mechanical energy to execute such activities.
But when a windmill acts as a wind turbine, it can provide electricity to power our houses. In that case, we speak of wind generators. Big farm plants of wind turbines (also called wind power units or WPU) can provide much power with which many homes can be supplied with the electricity they need. On the other hand, we can also build a simple wind turbine to supply our home with free, renewable and non-polluting electricity.
While the purchase of the elements that we require to implement a solar energy system to get free power in our home is not particularly inexpensive, a good solution is to build oneself a DIY wind power generator.
The suitability or not for introducing a wind energy system in our house or apartment is quite evident: wind turbines should be set in windy places. If this is not the case of our place, it is better to go for another alternative energy system like a home solar system or a magnet-based generator. Nonetheless, if you can make a wind turbine near your house in a place where wind blows quite consistently, that can be a very good option to, for example, a photovoltaic energy system that requires expensive solar panels.
I keep on wondering why initiatives regarding the introduction of these clean, free and non-polluting energy resources are not more boosted by everyone. Today, we go on not only decimating the oil resources of our planet but also contaminating our environment with the products derived from it. There are certainly some efforts in many countries and from different companies to implement clean and non-polluting energy systems in some cases. Nonetheless, all this is almost nothing if we bear in mind how bad we are dealing with our planet and our fellow living creatures (animals and plants) by polluting and annihilating their natural habitats and environment, and hence our own habitat and environment too.
For instance, why do we not mass-produce electric cars only? Forty years after we landed on the moon it is hardly believable that we do not have the required technology to fabricate electric cars better than the best conventional cars today. Besides, if a large amount of wind farms were created, the energy all those cars needed could be gotten for free! Of course the firsthand investment to set up so many wind energy units would also be important, but at the long run this investment would compensate many times.
As it appears, we live in a somehow crazy world where common sense is the less common of senses, as it is said However, we can always do something for ourselves, for our planet and for every living creature. So, every effort we make to introduce or encourage the creation of clean energy systems like the wind power electricity system, will be a good, convenient and honorable deed.
