Home Wind Turbines--Your Own Wind Turbine Power

In the USA natural gas was the biggest source of new energy in 2007. This was followed by wind energy power production. At years end 2007 wind turbines were producing in excess of 16000 megawatts of electric power and about one third of that capacity came on line in 2007. Big commercial turbines produce most of this power but an increasing amount is coming from the small turbine owned by individuals. The home wind turbine is the wave of the future as people take steps to reduce their use of power produced by fossil fuel burning generators. A major source of atmospheric pollution is emissions from coal and gas fueled power plants.

Wind power by comparision is absolutely clean and the only objectiion to it,voiced by some people,is visual pollution from the arrays of wind turbines necessary for large scale power production. However there are no problems of this kind with the residential wind turbine. Small scale wind power generation is acheived with small and unobtrusive home wind turbines. A combination of home solar panels-wind turbines can produce much of the power required by the average home. Small wind powered turbines are manufactured by a number of companies and can be readily set up either as a rooftop wind turbine or mounted on its own small tower. The recommended tower height is about 30 feet. These will pay for themselves in time but are quite expensive.

If you know how to build a wind turbine your home wind turbine will cost much less and fortunately this is fairly easy to do. Plans and instructions showing how to build your own wind turbine are readily available and thousands of people have built their own home made wind turbine. You will often be told that strong winds are needed for wind power generation. This is absolutely not so. Even gentle breezes will produce power which is stored in batteries till needed.

If you live far from electric power lines you either get by with no electric power or generate your own. Gasoline powered generators will do the job but they are expensive to run and heavy polluters. You may be fortunate enough to have a stream which can generate power for you using a water power system but these are usually difficult to build and expensive. The best answer is a wind turbine in most cases. In fact you can build your own wind power generator for a fraction of the cost of a commercial model. You could have plenty of power for all needs if you install two or three of them. Building your own home wind turbine is a fairly simple project which the average home workshopper can easily manage. Wind power reduces atmospheric pollution and will save you money.It is the coming thing for the immediate future. Why not try it?