Wind Turbine Electricity – Renewable Wind Power
How Wind Turbine Electricity Works: A Wind Turbine is one of the most cost efficient ways of producing energy in large quantities from your back yard.
It works by using a tail fin on a horizontal shaft at the back of the blades to point the blades in the direction of the wind, like WeatherVanes seen on top of buildings.
The blades are then pitched at an angle which would make the best efficiency to gather momentum from the wind, thus turning the blades faster with heavier winds and slower with lighter winds, generally the blades turn at even the lightest of breezes as they are very light.
As the blades turn they are connected to a shaft which is also connected to a generator, producing electricity, which is carried through a long cable down the vertical shaft of the Wind Turbine Electricity Installment to an old AC (Alternating Current) Motor, which can be converted to a DC current provided you buy a cheap converter for it. This is then connected to a battery which is where all the power is stored.
Blade Lengths do vary as Commercial Wind Turbines are placed at high wind spots called “Wind Farms” so their large blades can pick the wind up and rotate, generating an enviromentally sound electricity option.
Residential Wind Turbine Electricity Installations can produce anything from 350-500 watts of power depending on Wind Speed.
Solar Power Cells
Solar Power Cells (Photovoltaic)
Solar Power Cells are an enviromentally friendly way of producing Renewable Energy to sustain your home’s electricity with only a one time investment of either building the Solar Power Cells Yourself (about $200) or having someone commercially place Solar Power Cells around your house (about $20,000). This one time investment sustains your electricity for life with little to no maintenence. More and more people every year are exploring the Solar Energy Advantages and an increasing number of people have gone solar from around the globe. Unfortunately as sunlight is required, the cells will not produce electricity at night, however the electricity produced during the day if its light enough would sustain you throughout the night. Many people have small Wind Turbine Electricity Installations to surplus their primary source of electricity throughout the day AND night. Making an Enviromentally Friendly method of producing electricity. How Solar Power Cells Work
Solar Power is the process in generating electricity from sunlight. The most common method of generating Solar Power is with PhotoVoltaics (PV). Solar Power Cells have the potential to provide the world with electricity 1,000 times over, although it only provided 0.02% of the total that year. If Solar Power Cells popularity continues to grow at the rate it is now, it would become the dominant energy source this century. An ideal world would be a non-polluting one. One which every house is a Solar Energy House with Wind Turbine Electricity Installations fitted as standard…No MiddleMan…No Pollution…Your own Independent Power Source…and of course.. One less bill to worry about! Expect to see this gradual change within the next 15-30 years For More info on Cost, Advantages, Maintenence, the Guides and Wind Turbine Electricity, take a look through the site and then Visit here to get started!
How to Cost Effectively Build Your Domestic Wind Turbine and Solar Power Cell
How to Effectively Drill Down the Cost of Creating Your Solar Energy House
The Cost and Savings of a Residential Wind Turbine
As they cost a little bit more to make than a Solar Cell (around $180-$300 in parts) don’t be put off, the return is far greater. It just requires a little more of each resource (Time + Money) to get one set up. If you live in a particularly windy area, again, asses your geographic location and what method of Renewable Energy best suits your home.
When you have a completed Wind Turbine standing in front of you, expect it to generate around 300-450 watts and save you around 15-25% of your electricity useage (in an average household) per Turbine. Its best to only make one at a time as it can be quite laborious if its just you!
The Cost and Savings of a Solar Power Cell
When you take those first big steps into creating your own Solar Energy House, you will be at the hardware store picking up the necessary parts to get started. Expect to spend around $120-$240 on the raw parts.
In this case, the parts don’t have to be the best quality, the standard part will do just fine, so avoid spending too much on each part as you will end up racking up a huge price for something very simple! Keep it Simple! The beauty of Solar Power Cells is you can make more than one at once with not that much extra effort. Each Solar Cell (average sized) produces around 55-65 watts, saving you about 4-7% of your normal electricity depending on sunlight and Cell efficiency. As I said, if you make 2 or 3 at once (friends are handy for this) then you will be saving 12-21%! Now thats Urban Electricity!
Heres a Investment to Savings Rating for each Source:
Investment/Effort = Annual Energy Savings or $ (Based on Average Electricity Useage)
Wind Power Electricity Turbine Value Rating : $250/7 hours = 20% AES or $280 per Wind Turbine
Solar Power Cell Value Rating : $180/5 hours = 6% AES or $75 per Solar Cell
Remember if you build multiple Solar Power Cells at once, all you do is multiply the savings…simple!
What is a Solar Energy House?
Im Glad You Asked!
A Solar Energy House is in essence, a House Powered Supplementally or even Independently by Renewable Energy (Typically, you guessed it..Solar Power!)
Would you like to utilize an eco-friendly, renewable alternative and money saving method to power your home independently from entirely renewable sources?
If your answer is yes, Feel free to have a look through the site to learn more about Solar Power and Solar Energy Advantages and how you can get started on making your very own Solar Energy House!
The Advantages of Solar and Wind Energy
In Essence, a Solar Energy House is typically a house powered mostly, or completely independently by Solar Power Cells and Wind Turbine Electricity, meaning the owner of the house no longer has to worry about Energy Bills and are also making a very valuable contribution to the enviroment by eliminating their dependancy on non-renewable sources of energy.
Here are just a few Advantages of having your own source of Renewable Energy.
1) Easy to Maintain
Solar Power Cell Maintenence
In the grand scheme of things, Once you have set up your Solar or Wind Installations, there is little to no maintenence required for Solar Power Cells, hence why a LOT of people choose to conveniently place them on roofs of houses, regarding Solar Panels it really is a “Set and Forget” scenario. However please make sure it is set up correctly, refer to your Intructionals plenty of times before you set it. As I said, if it isn’t set correct, you might have very minor efficiency issues or minor problems, nothing too serious…So I’m going to call it “Set it Correct, Forget”! This Won’t be a problem if theres more than one of you doing your Solar Energy House project. I can’t stress enough if your placing your Solar Panels on the roof of your house, Please make it so you have a friend or family member with you, just because your saving money and being enviromentally friendly, it doesnt mean the laws of gravity don’t apply to you! Be Careful
Wind Power Electricity Maintenence
If you choose your primary method of obtaining Renewable Energy to supplement your home to be Wind Power Electricity, please bear in mind that it takes a little more maintenence than you would normally apply to your Solar Panel. For instance, your Wind Turbine Electricity Installation uses an old AC motor that would be simply converted into a generator to convert the momentum of the blades to electricity, same principle as a dynamo. This requires very little maintence as you would maintain an AC motor (little to none), but yield much more electricity per unit than a solar panel. You can achieve 63 watts under normal conditions with your Solar Power Cells, with each Wind Power Electricity Turbine you can achieve up to a whopping 400 watts on a normal day!
To Sum it all up, here some stats:
Solar Power Cell Maintenence Rating - 1/10 (Next to No Maintenence)
Residential Wind Turbine Maintenence Rating - 2/10 (Extremely Little Maintenence)
2) Easy to Build
Building a Solar Power Cell
This is of course the main question..How easy is it to start your own Solar Energy House? Your Very First Solar Power Cell Build can take anywhere from 3 to 6 hours depending on how many people are their, your knowledge about general joinery (little to no knowledge needed but it always helps). However please make sure it is set up correctly, refer to your Intructionals plenty of times before you set it. As I said, if it isn’t set correct, you might have very minor efficiency issues or minor problems, nothing too serious…So I’m going to call it “Set it Correct, Forget”! This Won’t be a problem if theres more than one of you doing your Solar Energy House project. The Instructions are very descriptive and available in both Written and HD Video Form so again, make sure everything is correct before you proceed with the next phase!
Building a Residential Wind Turbine
These turbines require more effort and a bit more money to build than a solar power cell but you would have the security of having a back-up plan of electricity if your unlucky enough to not see the sun for a few days! Don’t worry it happens to everyone!
Expect to spend around 5-8 hours on each Turbine Initially (Time Varies Depending on amount of people helping etc). It is always a good idea to spend a little more of your time erecting these Wind Turbines as well as having Solar Panels, again, its best to start off by making a few Solar Power Cells so your saving money right from the word go.
Making a Wind Turbine is only as hard as you make it, if you follow the instructions correctly, preferably with a friend or (competent) family member you will have your Wind Turbine Electricity up and running in only a few hours more than it would normally take to make a Solar Power Cell.
Heres a rating I gave to both types of Installation :
Solar Power Cell Build Effort Rating – 5/10 (Simple if you Follow Instructions)
Wind Power Electricity Turbine Build Effort Rating – 7/10 (Your Efforts Will be Rewarded)
3) Enviromentally Friendly
What I see as one of the key advantages of Solar and Wind energy is that they are sources of Renewable Energy, NOT contributing towards the 94% of US energy that is non-renewable, non-recycleable and enviromentally harmful. Meaning your also doing your bit for the planet as well as saving all those dollars in electricity bills.
Solar Power Cell Enviromental Rating – 11/10 (Eleven!)
Wind Turbine Electricity Enviromental Rating – 10/10 (Thats pretty Green!)
4) The numbers.
The Cost and Savings of a Wind Turbine Electricity Installation
As they cost a little bit more to make than a Solar Cell (around $180-$300 in parts) don’t be put off, the return is far greater. It just requires a little more of each resource (Time + Money) to get one set up. If you live in a particularly windy area, again, asses your geographic location and what method of Renewable Energy best suits your home.
When you have a completed Wind Turbine standing in front of you, expect it to generate around 300-450 watts and save you around 15-25% of your electricity useage (in an average household) per Turbine. Its best to only make one at a time as it can be quite laborious if its just you!
The Cost and Savings of a Solar Power Cell
When you take those first big steps into creating your own Solar Energy House, you will be at the hardware store picking up the necessary parts to get started. Expect to spend around $120-$240 on the raw parts.
In this case, the parts don’t have to be the best quality, the standard part will do just fine, so avoid spending too much on each part as you will end up racking up a huge price for something very simple! Keep it Simple! The beauty of Solar Power Cells is you can make more than one at once with not that much extra effort. Each Solar Cell (average sized) produces around 55-65 watts, saving you about 4-7% of your normal electricity depending on sunlight and Cell efficiency. As I said, if you make 2 or 3 at once (friends are handy for this) then you will be saving 12-21%! Now thats Urban Electricity!
Heres a Investment to Savings Rating for each Source:
Investment/Effort = Annual Energy Savings or $ (Based on Average Electricity Useage)
Wind Power Electricity Turbine Value Rating : $250/7 hours = 20% AES or $280 per Wind Turbine
Solar Power Cell Value Rating : $180/5 hours = 6% AES or $75 per Solar Cell
Remember if you build multiple Solar Power Cells at once, all you do is multiply the savings…simple!
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