subject: Residential Wind Turbines Are For Losers [print this page] Residential wind turbines are for people who want to lose their power company. It is unlikely that you can totally get rid of them but you can certainly reduce your dependence on them.
These are the reasons you need to seriously look into trashing your power company in favor of residential wind turbines at your home...
Residential wind turbines mean free energy - This is a very cool thing about residential wind turbines in general. Once you have paid the initial upfront fee which can be quite high, the energy that you create from then on is incrementally very cheap. Unless you are very unlucky and the device just falls apart on you, the only thing that you will have to pay after the initial upfront charge is just the maintenance of the device, which shouldn't cost more than a few hundred dollars per year. There are of course replacement cost parts, like when your rotor blades need replacing, but those not that expensive either and it can also result in an efficiency increase, so you should not look at the replacement of blades is a negative thing-it could be a very positive development for your home wind turbine is a matter of fact.
Residential wind turbines help the environment - Because of the fact that these devices do not require the burning of any fuel source, residential wind turbines are a huge help to the planet. What I mean by that is there is no pollution of any kind put out by a home wind turbine device. Except the pollution is put out when the device is manufactured, of course. You can always split hairs and find a environmentally unsound component to any manufacturing process if you really want to.
Home wind turbines make you independent - With fossil fuel prices, like gasoline and coal rising all the time, all of us are getting the feeling that this situation is spinning out of control. We are glued to the television set every night to find out how much gasoline has gone up in price. We know that since it is a finite resource that it will be going away one day completely. Having home wind turbines or residential wind turbines on your property makes you that much less dependent on what the big oil companies and the big coal producers choose to do today or this year.
In the final analysis, residential wind turbines for homes are for people who want to lose their power company. There are a lot of great reasons why this works out for not only you, but all citizens of the world.
