Homemade Wind Power - How to Generate Power at Home by Using a Homemade Wind Generator

By: Violeta Cutri

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Wind Energy is converted into electricity at home by making use of wind turbines. It is not that hard to construct a home made wind turbine. This homemade wind power helps us reduce our energy bills. There are a few tools that are required to build the wind turbines. These tools can be purchased from the market. The electricity can be used for all the electrical appliances, farms and other industries.

Wind energy does not produce air pollution. You can save the planet by generating wind power at home to make use of it for domestic purposes. We must not mount the wind turbine on the roof. This is because the winds near the roof are very slow and so the power generated is reduced. The home made windmills can be placed on an open land where there is maximum flow of wind. The pole must be fixed firmly on the ground to withstand strong winds.

To generate homemade wind power, a wind turbine must be setup which should have blades, a pole, a hub to hold the blades and a motor. The blades are actually used to catch the wind. The blades must be fixed with equal space on the hub. The blades are fixed in such a way so that more amount of wind is captured. They are mostly made from PVC pipes. The hub will connect all the blades. The blades must be cut such that they are of equal size.

The electric motor converts the wind energy drawn by blades to electricity. The tower or pole acts as the supporting element. It has to be fixed firmly on the ground. Finally Wires are used to connect all the devices to establish connectivity. The motor is connected to a battery to store excess electricity. Then finally the direct current is converted into alternating current and is made use at home.

You can check out whether the electricity is being generated with the help of the ammeter. You can either use the simple ammeter which is quiet cheap or you can buy the multimeter and then use it for ever. I would really appreciate the use of the multimeter. Homemade wind power is easy to generate. Initially it might be little difficult to construct the windmill but it gives a lot of motivation to you to generate power for your own use at home.

You can take the help of someone to build wind turbine to generate wind power. It would be beneficial for you to access all information regarding construction of homemade wind power at http://www.earth4savingenergy.info/windpower.php. You can also make others understand how useful it would if they also construct such a windmill. The whole setup can be placed at the back of the house. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Violeta_Cutri

The Importance of Renewable Energy

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There's plenty of renewable business development both on local and global scenes this last months. The call for a safer and cleaner energy source are even back on the debate table this days especially after Japan was hit by an earthquake and damaged one of its nuclear power plant which as of this writing continue emitting very hazardous radiation.

With todays power source trends, lets see the importance of renewable energy and why energy companies and even government should start renewable energy investing, from this article written by Gretchen Canedo.

Here it is:

Renewable energy is an energy produced from easily-replenished sources like the sun, wind, water, biological and geothermal processes. Compared to fossil fuels and coals, these natural resources are usually referred to as clean forms of energy since they do not produce harmful emissions and polluting agents into the atmosphere and thus have a very minimal environmental impact during the process of production which is a very good factor in the preservation of our environment.

It is undeniable though that investing in renewable energy does not come cheap but if we are to think about what the costs of continuing the usage of coals and fossil fuels will do to our environment, I think it's fair enough. Just consider the damages brought about by the effects of global warming, to sum it all, it may worth more if not equal to the amount needed for the facilities required in the production of renewable energy. And since there are no more harmful emissions therefore it is non-polluting, thus; a more healthy society is likely achievable.

The benefits of using renewable energy is not limited to being replaceable, it extends to the creation of jobs through the different projects initiated by several companies and agencies supporting the use of this energy source. By using this form of energy a nation's dependence from oil-producing countries will alleviate. Instead of spending money for importing energy why don't we invest it in the maintenance and acquisition of more equipment for the production of renewable energy? It makes more sense to invest to something that both the present and the future generation can benefit. We cannot exhaust the limited resources that we have because if we do what else could we give to our children in the future.

Let's not think about how hard it will be to achieve a green world nowadays but how harder it is to restore a world from destruction. It takes millions of years before the world can regenerate new sources for the world to consume and we can only hope that they are produced even before we use up the already limited stocks. Shifting from the conventional sources of energy to the renewable sources is not an easy transition. It can greatly affect not just the economy but also the consumption of every house (residential or industrial) however we should always consider the environmental aspect and the societal needs if we are to decide which energy source we should maintain and use.

Renewable Energy is what we need to sustain and preserve the diminishing sources of energy such as coals and fossil fuels. Help save the world today, invest in Renewable Energy!

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