30
Dec
Posted by: Peter Hainz / Category:
Alternative Energy
The sole way of knowing if a wind turbine will work at your home is to have an understanding of what the wind resource is at your location. This isn’t a question about if it is ever gusty thereit is perhaps gusty during storms, but that’s just an observation about the weather. What you need to understand about is the long term average wind speed for your area, or significant climate information, not daily weather.
The amount of electricity that a wind turbine can generate is a function of how much wind you can “collect.” If you can consistently collect medium to high winds, you will generate much more electricity than if high winds are a rare occurrence only associated with thunderstorms. So living in an area with a good wind resource is important to the success of your wind system.
And equally important is being able to access that wind resource. If you want to float down a river on a raft, you need to be in a part of the river with strong currents. If you are in a protected cove off to the side and isolated from the river current, you may bob around a bit, but you will not make much headway down the river.
In a similar fashion , for your wind system to basically generate electrical energy, your wind turbine must be situated in such a place where it can access the flow of the wind. This is the reason why turbines are installed on towers that rise high over the encompassing trees and buildings in an area.
Tall towers are necessary to gain access to the flow of the wind. Installing your wind system on a tower shorter than the area’s tree line, or, worse yet, on top of your roof, is akin to floating in a sheltered cove of a river: you may occasionally bob a bit but there will be little forward progress. There is simply little energy in low winds that you can convert into usable electricity. Do you want kinetic yard art or a wind electric generator?
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21
Jul
Posted by: James Snyder / Category:
Wind Power
by James Snyder
Just about anywhere you live you will find wind. Where I live the wind blow hard quite often but it is always moving regardless of how hard it blows. One of the fastest growing sources of power is renewable wind energy. We are seeing wind farms all over the country as well as wind turbines in the back yard of homes.
In geographical areas where winds blow strong, renewable wind energy is a smart choice for providing electric power to homes and small businesses. Yet even if you dont live in windy areas, you can still supplement your current electricity supply by utilizing renewable wind energy. The wind blows wherever you are.
The best part is by using do-it-yourself guides; even the least skilled handymen can build their own windmills and start using renewable wind energy to lower their electric bills each month. However, if you do live in a particularly windy area you can feasibly generate an abundance of electricity from renewable wind energy systems.
It is also possible to build several wind turbines to power your renewable wind energy system. Most of us have seen the pictures of the wind farms being built to supply power to whole cities. This is a little much for a residential area, but even small dwellings can benefit from multiple smaller wind turbines.
In most areas you can sell any excess electric power back to the local power company. You should check with them and they will be able to help you to set things up. Not only do you save on your energy bills but you may even make a buck or two with your renewable wind energy system.
Our local counties and townships have recently passed laws allowing the use of wind turbines to generate renewable wind energy. The first local business to incorporate them into their system is the largest grocery chain in our town. There are a number of residential homes also applying this technique to their energy efficiency. You can no doubt do the same.
The very best part of integrating a renewable wind energy system into your home or business is the environmental impact. Renewable wind energy produces little to no pollution, no harmful greenhouse gases and no methane or carbon dioxide-which contribute to global warming. And of course the savings those homeowners can realize after their initial investment in renewable wind energy.
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It is definitely worthwhile to learn more about
renewable wind energy. When you construct your own wind turbines you can add needed dollars to your pocket and help the environment at the same time.
renewable wind energy, power from the wind is a great thing.?