How Wind Energy Can Work For You
August 18, 2008 by admin
Filed under Green Energy
Wind energy is one of the simplest ways to reduce your use of fossil fuel electricity at home. Wind is a renewable source of energy and can be used to power a generator large enough to significantly cut your electric bill, and in very windy areas of the country you may even be able to completely power you home with wind energy. In fact, some city utilities have wind power plants to supply electricity to entire cities.
Wind energy is produced by wind turbines. These are tall windmills with two or three blades. The windmills are on towers and should be a minimum of 100 feet high in order to utilize the fastest wind and be above the turbulent winds. This gives the turbine the most consistent spin. The wind will then turn the windmill, which is hooked to a generator. The spinning of the blades in turn spin the generator and produces electricity. One large wind turbine can produce 1.5 megawatts of electricity.
Wind turbine energy can be used in conjunction with solar and hydro energy to produce more than enough energy to run a household and not reduce, but eliminate your electricity bills. In addition to eliminating your electric bill, if you are on a power grid the electric company may have to purchase any extra energy you produce from you. That’s right; you can get paid by your electric company each and every month using renewable energy to power your home.
There are federal, state and local grants typically available to assist you in remodeling your home to a renewable energy home. This would significantly cut the cost of the remodel and you could recoup any remaining costs in a matter of a few years with the reduction or elimination of electric bills, especially if the power company has to buy the extra energy from you.
It just doesn’t make sense not to consider renewable energy for your home. Whether you are thinking of remodeling your home or building a new home, look into renewable energy options. Not only will it save you money by going green, it will help to save the environment.
Love this article. My electric bills in the summer are equivalent to a car payment. The notion of my electric company paying me is exciting.
There are several resources available to make this conversion easy.
Solar energy is another alternative to being on the grid and it is not that hard to get started once you are educated.
I wonder why this technology that could save us a ton of money and use natural resources is not ever spoken of in our corporate controlled media.
Of course, I don’t wonder at all.
The answer is obvious.