subject: Small Scale Wind Turbines: 2 Ways They Will Revolutionize Home Energy Use [print this page] Small scale wind turbines are truly becoming a revolution of sorts in the way we achieve our power at home. In the past, all electricity was made in central power plants and distributed to us at our homes. Now, the model is changing fast and we are moving to a society where power is made at the source of need rather than at some power generating facility miles and miles away.
This centralized way has been the model for well over a century. Any time a community will grow in the amount of power that would be needed, the local utility would just add generation capacity at centrally located facility. From there, the power would be distributed to wherever it needed to go. That however is a vestige of the fossil fuel power market. It is no longer cheaper nor more desirable to have all the power made in one location. Not only from the standpoint of efficiency does it need to be distributed, but also having all of your ducks in one place would allow a terrorist to destroy the entire energy infrastructure with one bomb.
These are the 2 big ways small scale wind turbines will continue to revolutionize how we use energy at our houses
Roof Mounting - The fact that these devices can be located on top of roofs makes them almost universally applicable. Not only can you put them on the roof of a house in the country, but also in a large city. The large cities nowadays are where there is very little renewable energy to speak of. By making these roofs and cities available, we are expanding the amount of real estate available for renewable energy creation to an almost exponential extent. This is really the promise of the renewable energy industry. The fact that we can use roofs to make power is enormous. Multiple units can be installed on the roof and not hurt the performance of any individual wind turbine as well.
Do-it-yourself Implementation - The fact that small scale wind turbine kits can be made and installed by the average homeowner is a clear difference in the way power has been created in the past and the way it will be in the future. In the past of course, any type of power generation was left up to large-scale utilities and the creation of power was very complicated, meaning the average person could never make power on their own. Now, things are different. By employing small scale wind turbines we all can have a degree of control over our power cost destinies.
Clearly, small scale wind turbines are a major force of change in how we get power at home. They represent a fundamental change in the way energy will be made in the future. The fact that these devices can be easily deployed has a lot do with the success they will unquestionably continue to see.
