Windmill Power

It’s good to see that we have good information available to us about home wind power generation. This site looks like a good one. The American Wind Energy Association has good pages about what they label "small wind", which is residential windmill and small business related windmill power.

They provide a ton of useful stuff from Industry Standards, to expert advice, and even success stories.  There is a forum for home energy, and links to other resources.

I enjoyed looking around, and barely scratched the surface of what was there.

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Finding sources of sustainable energy is becoming more and more important.  But using windmill power to help us work isn’t new.  I was looking for information on windmills today, and came across this site.  They have a collection of windmills from the early days of the American West, back when windmill power was harnessed to pump water and other chores on the frontier.  I guess good ideas are timeless.

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With the economy on shaky ground and money possibly becoming tight, we need to look even harder for ways to save cash.

Windmills are a great way to cut down on power bills, but some of those systems run into the thousands of dollars. I have been looking for windmill designs that help cut down on bills, and are relatively cheap.

Earth 4 Energy by Michael Harvey shows you how to design windmills and build it for as little as $200. It also has information on building a solar power system.  It even teaches you how to get free batteries to store that power.

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The green power that comes from wind turbines is wonderful as long as you don’t live to close to a wind farm.

A pediatrician named Dr. Nina Pierpont has written a book on the medical problems people have had that live very close to wind turbine farms, Wind Turbine Syndrome “likely to become an industrial plague”

According the CTV.ca News Staff

 “Some early findings suggest that wind turbines create a high intensity, low frequency sound that may have an effect on the body. Not only can the sound potentially cause debilitating illness. Some researchers believe that the vibrations the sound causes in the inner ear may lead to vibro-acoustic disease, which can cause dizziness, nausea and sleep disturbances.”

This does not appear to be a problem for all people that live close to residential wind turbines and many of there wind farms are a distance form communities.

It is still a good idea to keep in mind when wind farms are coming to your neighborhood, or when looking at property in an area with residential wind turbines near by.

Here is the link to the full story to help you decide for yourself if you want to live close to residential wind turbines.

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