Solar Power – Wind Power

The prospect of using wind power is very seductive; but does it really work?

Well it certainly does, and has done for millennia.  Wind has powered sailing vessels; it has also powered grain grinding mills.  These became known as windmills.  The wind has also been used to power water pumps — these were still called windmills but in reality wind pumps would have been a more accurate term.

More recently the wind has been used to drive turbines that produce electricity.  Quite simply the wind, acting on the blades or sails of the turbine, causes the turbine to spin thus turning the shaft on which the blades or sails are mounted.  The power of this spinning shaft is then used to drive an electric generator.

It is really a very simple process which can be adapted to drive small domestic wind power turbines through to huge commercial turbines.

Many people these days build their own wind turbines and in doing so save a considerable amount of money when compared with the commercial product.  Many excellent guides are available on the Internet which take the do-it-yourself handyman through the process of building and installing domestic wind power. Read the rest of this entry »

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Good question; how does solar power work?  Why is it relevant that you have an understanding of the basics of home-produced energy?  And more importantly, why could such information have a beneficial effect on your life?

Well, first of all, solar power is one of the cleanest, most effective, most efficient and most economical forms all of renewable energy available on the planet. 

Secondly, it is now possible to build your own source of domestic solar power, thanks to the many excellent do-it-yourself guides that are available on the Internet.  

What this means to you is that you can decrease and even eliminate your reliance on the electric companies’ power grids, and enjoy significant savings.  These guides very clearly explain and demonstrate the process of making your own solar energy panels (and even wind turbines). Read the rest of this entry »

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