subject: Make Your Own Electricity - Top 2 Ways To Make Electricity [print this page] With all the talk about going energy independent, making your own electricity is the easiest and most flexible. The great thing is you begin making your own electricity with a solar panel for less than $100 dollars. Isn't that exciting?
With all the electricity that you will be creating you will have to decide what you are going to use it for. Now that you are generating your own electricity; you can use it to power your small garage like the lighting, your house, and much more.
Here is a great thing that you can do once you are making your own electricity, you can sell it back to the power company to make a small profit for the month. When you are making your own electricity you do not have to even use any power from the utility company, how wonderful is that.
The following things you should know about making your own electricity at home:
***Do you live in a sunny place? Then you should really user solar energy to make your electricity.
***Is it always windy around your house? Then you should consider using a windmill to make electricity.
***Have a river near your house or near you with flowing water? Then how about using micro-hydro, sometimes it makes work better than solar and wind combined. ***The best way to generate energy is to use a combination of the power sources.
***If your house is connected to a grid line, which is when you have electrical power delivered from a utility company you should consider using a "Grid Tie."
***But if you aren't remote or connected to the electrical grid, or want to generate your own power then you should consider a self-contained solution.
How to Generate Power with Solar Power:
You have to think about the location that you put your solar panels before you start making it. The solar panel should be mounted facing south to the sun exposure, which is north-facing in the Southern Hemisphere, up-facing near the equator. Having clear weather most of the year is helpful, plus light overcast conditions are sometimes beneficial.
OK, you have the location but now you need to know about the angle, the angle should be adjusted according to your latitude. They should point straight up at any latitude, but sometimes will lose some efficiency and then you will need to build more solar panels. There is nothing wrong about having a lot of solar panels, the more the better.
The fixed mounted solar panels have their own structure which contains housing for batteries and charge controllers. You could place the fixed mounted solar panels on your roof, but you have to remember that it will be harder to mount and maintain.
How to Generate Your Own Electricity with Wind Power:
***Windmills can be bought pre-packages which might mean they are less expensive then the solar panels
***You might need a special charge controller with a "diverter load," which is a big resistor, but can be a 12 or 14 volt electric water heater element.
***You need the wind speed in your area to make a windmill work well
***Some windmills can be noisy. But not for you since you are making your own and you will have great plans that will tell you how to build them correctly
***Everyone will be able to see it, which might be an "eyesore" to some people
***Sometimes you will have birds that will kind of not make it though the wind blades, but no worry you can always clean the (if you want too)
You need desolated areas where the wind is consistent plus with very few things blocking it like trees or high building. Wind power supplements solar power at night or on cloud days to make energy when your solar panels aren't.
