subject: Residential Wind Energy: Why Must You Take Advantage Of This? [print this page] Residential wind energy is the wave of the future. Right now, there are opportunities all over the world for taking advantage of this type of free energy that the wind patterns contain.
With the tremendous rise in the cost of fossil fuels and the lack of availability of them things are changing on the energy horizon at an alarming pace. We are having to think of alternate energy options that we always knew were there, but most of us didn't think we would have to go to the trouble to tap.
While there are other options available for home energy generation, residential wind energy is the easiest to conceptually understand. It is really no more complicated than a child's pinwheel toy.But, why must you seriously consider such a wind energy device?
The main reason is we really have no choice but to take matters into our own hands. It is clear that the large energy companies that traffic in fossil fuels are clinging on so tightly to those reserves and the concept of long distance energy delivery that they are not looking for ways to monetize dispersed home energy production.
With all the uncertainty surrounding the future of fossil fuels, we all need an increasing level of energy independence. We have all built lifestyles around electronic devices and creature comforts such as air conditioning. If we want to maintain that lifestyle we cannot just blindly accept what energy companies and world leaders are telling us. They have their own agendas and those may or may not align with the reduction of our home power costs.Residential wind energy is not cheap right now but it is probably the best renewable option that we have. To start simple, you can easily purchase a wind turbine kit to supply power for something like your freezer or small pump for less than $1000, completely installed.
Compare that with the options available-geothermal energy is certainly possible, but it will cost you on the order of $30,000-$40,000 and is very heavily engineering intensive. Solar energy is also an option but likewise, it is expensive and more intuitively difficult to understand. If you going to have someone work on your solar collector, they probably need to be an expert and not just a home handyman.
Summarizing-residential wind energy is here to stay. We really don't want to go to the trouble to do all this effort that setting up renewable energy collectors require, but we really have no choice if we are going to maintain our lifestyles of consuming electricity at home for devices that we have come to know and love, like computers and air conditioning.
