Build Yourself a Wind Turbine
Ray Bate Build Yourself a Wind Turbine Have you suffered power cuts in these hot, sticky, summer days? Why is it that it happens, always, when you can least tolerate it! In the bath, at the top of a ladder, half way through cooking for six friends who you have been itching to show how good a cook you are…
Here is how you can avoid that kind of problem – and smile as your backup system takes over smoothly and no-one notices the difference; • Do your homework, a little research, and see for yourself that in your zone there is enough wind throughout the year to drive a small wind generator.
• A little more thinking and you see where you must rig the turbine on your patch of land, how big (or small) the tower must be. • Some calculation and planning to assess how much power you need through typical days and nights, and so decide what turbine you need to buy to generate this amount of power. • Decide on whether you will charge batteries using a regulator to prevent overcharge and use the batteries to run d.c. devices, lights, electric fence, etc. or… • Connect to the house main breaker panel from an invertor or suitable a.c generator. In this case the wind generator is working in parallel with the electric company supply and you will usually be able to sell excess power back to them (this is possible in many states of the USA and several European countries). • Some financial calculation and you will see the individual cost items, the total cost of the project, any ongoing costs, and the size of the possible cost saving if connecting with the main electricity supply. The problem is a real one, a wind turbine may be your ideal solution for alternative energy. Follow the points, one by one, and you can arrive at a big satisfaction for an interesting project well done – and no power cuts! And very useful cost saving as time goes on. In newsletters of www.alert.alternativeenergy.com I shall go into all the details of a project like this, answer all your questions, show how it can really be done. But what if you really cannot use wind power, because you don’t have space, the wind isn’t consistent enough, strong enough? If not, it may be that a Photo Voltaic Solar Panel is a solution which is better adapted to your situation (no wind and hot, hot sun).
Well, next time let’s talk about Solar Power… About the Author
Ray Bate is a physics graduate with years of experience of navy high tech systems engineering, then consulting for European Space agency satellites including solar panels, electronics and software systems. He is now very interested in the evolving and increasingly important Alternative Energy or Replaceable Energy, eg. Solar, Eolian and Geothermal Heat Pumps. http://alert-alternativeenergy.com Ray Bate may be contacted at http://www.alert-alternativeenergy.com/. Click here to view more articles by Ray Bate. Reprinted with Permission from IdeaMarketers.com
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