subject: Wind Generated Electricity For Your Home: 2 Locations For These Type Of Devices [print this page] The wind generated electricity you are trying to make with your home wind turbine can truly offset a lot of your utility costs, but you have to put them in the right place. While there are many locations that might seem like a good idea, putting a wind generator in the wrong place can be ultimately both time-consuming and frustrating.
Just when you think you're going to get power coming out the other end of your electricity pipe you find that you have sub-optimized the location at which you are trying to locate the turbine and your power is a merely a fraction of what you actually could be achieving. That is why it is important to take a little time and study where exactly you could put the wind turbine near your house - the closer the better of course.
If you put the wind turbines in these locations though, you will not go wrong...
Roof eve - Putting your wind turbine kit on your roof is probably going to be the best location of all for most people. There is a little concept called "Roof Effect" that can greatly enhance your ability to harvest power from the wind at your house. What wind you do have on your roof will be channeled into a concentrated fashion towards the apex, or even of your roof.
What this means is your strongest position for mounting a wind turbine will be at the apex. While the roof is not the ideal place for getting the strongest wind around your house, it does have the advantage that it is easier to access if maintenance problems arise. It is also possibly the easiest place to have excepted by your community as a site for your wind turbine. You can almost always mount wind turbines that are of the vertical type in locations that are very unobtrusive and they will be hardly noticed.
Tower mount - Putting the turbine kit way up in the atmosphere to garner the strongest wind is probably the best solution of all if you can afford to do it. A tower with a wind turbine project can increase your initial costs by up to double the amount you pay for the device itself. Therefore, not going deeply enough to seriously check out what the wind speeds, both average and the frequency distributions, over time is going to be destructive and will make your other best alternative of mounting on your roof, better.
In summary, be strategic about where you put your turbine on your house and it will not let you down.
