subject: Your Windmill Powered House [print this page] Starting a windmill powered lifestyle is a step into the future. With the prices of traditionally generated electricity rising year after year, we have really no choice but to aggressively look at alternative ways of producing electricity.
Compound that problem with the fact that fossil fuels, which are used to generate that electricity, are dwindling at a phenomenal rate. We are just not finding replacements for the fuel that we are burning up so fast. Even though there are occasional new finds, by the very nature of the composition these materials and the way they were generated millions of years ago, we know that they are short-lived at best.
These are the reasons why you should be considering a windmill powered house:
Perpetual power for free - Being able to supply your house with all the power that you need in order to run the electronics and energy consuming apparatus perpetually is perhaps the strongest incentive you have for acquiring a home wind turbine. Once you have paid off your initial investment, all of the power that your device makes from now on will be without additional cost to you. Yes, there are some maintenance and replacement costs that you need to be aware of, but they are relatively small in proportion to the huge amount of savings that you will achieve by not having to buy the more expensive electricity that your utility sells you now.
Windmill powered homes are burning clean electricity - Whether it is overtly and vocally acknowledged or not, most people intuitively realized that the power that is produced by utilities is contributing to air pollution and water pollution in a big way. As a matter of fact, most of the dirt in the air and water comes from power generation. By using a home windmill, you are taking a stand and choosing not to produce pollution in the generation of your own personal power, or in the proliferation of your personal lifestyle.
We have no choice but to aggressively act - As we've said, the slippery slope that we are all on now, regarding availability of fossil fuel resources in the near future, should give us all pause to reflect on what we are going to power our world with next. We really have no choice in this matter of making this a personal quest and windmill power will have to be a part of our personal energy equation until we come up with something different that it's cheaper and less of a hassle.
In summary, windmill powered houses are becoming increasingly common due to a variety of societal and economic reasons. Wind turbines are ultimately giving us the opportunity to produce perpetual clean energy from the breezes that blow around us all the time and just blow right by us without a second glance.
