subject: Best Wind Turbine: 2 Places To Mount It [print this page] When you are investigating the best wind turbine for your home, one of the first things you need to do is find a place to locate it. The location you choose must have several attributes that should be optimized.
These are the key variables you need to strongly consider...
Amount of power you need to make - This is a good place to start and as good a place to start as any. There are a lot of pieces of information that you'll need to take into account, but how much energy you're really alternately trying to drive to an appliance is probably the best question of all. While some people can effectively live off grid, that is unusual. More people will be able to power some small appliance or charges set of batteries for eventual use in a power outage. The problem is that wind energy and other renewables are very intermittent in nature. In other words, they come and go as they please and therefore cannot be counted on to power your clients when you want to be powered. Therefore, the ideal situation is always to have a battery involved.
Local restrictions - There are a number of local restrictions that can apply to your wind turbine project. Primarily those are the height that you will mounted at-that is, the height of the tallest part of apparatus or, the distance the wind turbine is mounted from your neighbor's property.
Price - first cost is always a big factor in any project. In wind turbine projects there is no benchmark so it is very easy for manufacturers to charge thousands and thousands of dollars more for something that seems exactly like something that would perform just as well for under $1000.
Once you have a general idea regarding these factors, it is time to look into where exactly you can put the device on your property. These are the places that are the most popular with the most homeowners...
Roof - The roof is probably the most popular place to install a wind turbine in the states. It is out of the way and it is relatively easy to access when you need to. The wind dynamics of the roof structure are not that great and can lead to some chaotic wind conditions, but the roof is a tremendous piece of real estate that has been too often overlooked in the past.
Tower - This is by far the best way to make power. You will harvest the most by mounting your home wind turbines on towers. The reason for that is that is where the best wind always is. The strongest and most stable wind conditions are high above your trees so, the higher up you can go the better the project and the more energy you create.
In any case, the best wind turbine for your home will not be the same as the best one for the next guy's home. Keep that in mind and you will do fine.
