Would you like to learn to build your own wind turbine? The cost of buying windmills new can be a bit expensive. If you are interested in exactly how windmill works then this book is just the thing for you. If you are in the USA then the European measurements might throw you, but it should be easy enough to figure out.
Test the wind around your home to find out if windmill power is for you. This handy little tool is called a Handheld Windspeed Meter. If you have regular winds it can let you know how fast they are moving. This meter has two ranges, the first is 2 to 10 mile per hour, and the second is 4 to 66 miles per hour. You can see the speed by viewing the floating ball in the clear tube. This contraption is 6 inches tall and comes with a convenient carrying case. And the best part is that this windspeed meter will only set you back $20.00 US. That isn’t much to find out if you can use a windmill to power your home.
OK, this is a house not the Enterprise, but it still might be the wave of the future.
Have you been wondering where to use windmill power? There are houses that make windmills an important part of the house’s structure. These are called Packaged Earthships and they are very economical, because the owner can build a lot of it themselves instead of hiring contractors, and they are living completely off the grid. Also the main building materials, old tires and dirt can be obtained very inexpensively or sometimes even free.
Earthship Biotecture is versatile.
The Earthship is the brainchild of Michael Reynolds, who started building them in Taos, New Mexico in the 1970s. Today these innovative houses are being used in such places as India, France, Mexico, Belgium, Nicaragua, England Japan, Scotland, Honduras, Bolivia, Hawaii, and Nebraska.
What exactly is an Earthship?
The basic idea of the Earthship Biotecture is to use old tires filled with dirt to build the outer walls. Old cans and bottles are used to build the interior walls. One wall should be mostly windows to take advantage of the sun. All the walls, except the window wall and the walls made of bottles would be hidden by plaster to create an adobe look. The houses are even partially built into the ground. The building materials used and the natural insulation from being built into the earth make the most of the day’s heat to create a very temperate home of around 70 degrees all year without heating and cooling costs. These self sufficient homes also have their own sewage treatment and have a rain water collection system as well as using solar panels and a photovoltaic / wind power system to generate electricity.
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