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How much does a Home Wind Power generator system cost?
There is a person living off grid a few miles from me. When his house was built it would have cost $15000 to get poles installed to connect to the power grid. That became his budget for the solar/wind energy system. He installed solar heating panels, solar PV and a 1kW wind turbine to charge a battery bank, and even purchased a small portable generator. The system has been operating for several years. Payback on this system was immediate, and he hasn’t had an electric bill since.
I’m putting together a small wind system in my back yard. So far I have the concrete foundations installed for a 80 foot guyed tower. Inside, the equipment rack is pretty much complete with the exception of the dump load. Pictures and diagrams are on my web page.
http://members.rennlist.org/warren/wind.html
Payback on the system is somewhere on the order of about 15 years, but I’m not building it to save money. If I were to smoke or go bar hopping regularly an equivalent amount of money would have been spent long ago. This way I have something concrete at the end of the day and it gives me something to experiment with and learn about.
Homebrew Wind power
It is very windy in Wellington 
This thing has been up for a few years, it does about 50 watts flat out. It uses an old washing machine permanent magnet motor.
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Home with Wind and Solar Energy
Video of a homeowner who has put both solar and wind power at his home in West Virginia.
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Home Wind Turbines
http://WindEnergy7.com – An Ohio manufacturer of home wind turbine kits. Our patented home wind turbine rooftop kit is currently available for purchase online. Or buy a home wind turbine from our established nationwide wind turbine dealer and wind turbine installer network. Our home wind turbine is a very high tech, quality engineered, rooftop wind turbine kit, invented and patented by WindEnergy7 LLC, an Ohio manufacturer. The home wind turbine has a 2 moving part generator using the strongest magnets in the world, less moving parts than any other competitor. Less moving parts in a home wind turbine means less wear, less noise and vibration making the home wind turbine quiet on your home’s roof. Our home wind turbine will run smoothly and spin your meter backwards. We have more installed rooftop home wind turbines than anyone because we have solved the noise and vibration that is the problem of all other systems out there who try to put home wind turbines on a rooftop.
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Home Wind Turbines
http://WindEnergy7.com – An Ohio manufacturer of home wind turbine kits. Our patented home wind turbine rooftop kit is currently available for purchase online. Or buy a home wind turbine from our established nationwide wind turbine dealer and wind turbine installer network. Our home wind turbine is a very high tech, quality engineered, rooftop wind turbine kit, invented and patented by WindEnergy7 LLC, an Ohio manufacturer. The home wind turbine has a 2 moving part generator using the strongest magnets in the world, less moving parts than any other competitor. Less moving parts in a home wind turbine means less wear, less noise and vibration making the home wind turbine quiet on your home’s roof. Our home wind turbine will run smoothly and spin your meter backwards. We have more installed rooftop home wind turbines than anyone because we have solved the noise and vibration that is the problem of all other systems out there who try to put home wind turbines on a rooftop.
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Home Wind Turbines
http://WindEnergy7.com – An Ohio manufacturer of home wind turbine kits. Our patented home wind turbine rooftop kit is currently available for purchase online. Or buy a home wind turbine from our established nationwide wind turbine dealer and wind turbine installer network. Our home wind turbine is a very high tech, quality engineered, rooftop wind turbine kit, invented and patented by WindEnergy7 LLC, an Ohio manufacturer. The home wind turbine has a 2 moving part generator using the strongest magnets in the world, less moving parts than any other competitor. Less moving parts in a home wind turbine means less wear, less noise and vibration making the home wind turbine quiet on your home’s roof. Our home wind turbine will run smoothly and spin your meter backwards. We have more installed rooftop home wind turbines than anyone because we have solved the noise and vibration that is the problem of all other systems out there who try to put home wind turbines on a rooftop.
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Elements of Life: Instances of Harnessed Wind Power
Put this together for future reference. Really love some of these designs so figured it would be nice to share these images with everyone.
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Free Wind Power Generator Plans Instructions
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http://www.55energy.com MAKE CHEAP WINDMILLAre there any disadvantages to choosing wind power for our home as offered by our electric company?
Good grief…the answers you have recieved thus far!
My husband works on the commercial wind turbines. Our power company also offers purchasing of the wind power, at an extra $4 per month charge. Something I find rather humorous, since my husband is actually employed to work on the wind turbines.
You will of course still have power if the wind is not blowing, or the wind farm is down for some sort of repair. You electric company will continue to provide you power, it will just come from another source. To think that the power company would leave you without power is just plain silly.
The modern commercial wind turbines DO NOT KILL BIRDS, as some people would have you believe. To put it simply, the blades are larger than they use to be (and more efficient) and spin at a much slower rate. The birds are well able to judge the speed of the wind turbines. Wind farms actually provide amazing wildlife habitat. Instead of becoming covered with sprawling housing developments, the land remains in tact, and the wildlife QUICKLY adapts to the turbines. I am quiet an avid lover of wildlife. I would be most distressed to see birds of prey, or migrating geese and swans killed by the turbines. This simply doe NOT happen.
If you are able to easily afford the extra money for the wind energy, then I would say go ahead. However, I would ask that your electric company provide an accounting of exactly how that money is being spent. If it is a stretch for your budget, or you are having financial problems, then forgo the extra money.
Supporting the wind turbines is wonderful. They provide wildlife habitat. They are a completely renewable recource, the very towers themselves, are highly recyclable when they have reached the end of their lifespan.
The wind turbines help suport people in rural areas with good paying jobs that are usually hard to come by. In turn this also helps support local businesses. Examples of that would be the local gentleman they employe at my husbands site to maintain the gravel roads, and to so snow removal. They paid him over $100K last year. The local fencing comapany they empoyed to put up strong gates to keep people off the landowners private land where the turbines sit (I forgot how much but it was expensive). The local radio rental company they are always renting radios from when crews come in for different projects. Usually $300 a month to the radio rental company.
The list goes on and on. Supporting the green energy of the wind turbines really is a win-win situation.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years