| The global financial and energy crisis is taking its toll on | | | | In any case, make sure that you have the complete |
| your home. Building your own DIY wind turbine might | | | | instructions on how to perform this project on your |
| just help cut down that power bill in an eco-friendly | | | | own. If the instruction is incomplete, so will the results |
| way. | | | | be. And all the effort will be put to waste if this |
| Wind is Power | | | | happens. |
| Since over five thousand years ago, people have | | | | Also, make sure that the instructions are |
| been using wind for power. Wind was used for | | | | easily-comprehensible. There's no point in using the |
| propelling sailboats and powering windmills. | | | | guidebook if you don't understand anything in it. |
| Windmills have been conduits for wind power to grind | | | | It is also best to make sure that the materials are |
| corn, pump water or generate electricity. In the United | | | | available to you. As mentioned earlier, the materials |
| States, windmills were used to pump water to make | | | | may not be provided by the company selling the |
| farming possible in areas where water was not readily | | | | guidebook. In this case, you would have to get the |
| available. They were also used to pump water for | | | | materials yourself. And the goal of DIY is to make |
| steam engines. Sometimes, they were used to | | | | your own stuff in a convenient and cost-efficient way. |
| generate electricity for remote and isolated areas as | | | | If you would have to spend some amount on |
| alternative to diesel generators | | | | manufacturing or shipping and handling of parts, then it |
| Today, wind turbines are used by more and more | | | | defeats the whole purpose. |
| people for power. The country owes about twenty | | | | If you know someone who has already made their |
| three per cent of its power to the wind. In Europe, fifty | | | | own wind turbine and is using it, ask them to teach you. |
| five per cent of the power is generated through | | | | This is the simplest, most practical way to do it. You |
| wind-propelled turbines. And each year, more countries | | | | get hands-on teaching on how to build your own |
| are building them to lighten up dark nights. | | | | power generator. You also have someone to correct |
| Build Your Own | | | | the mistakes that you might make during construction. |
| Small-scale wind power is being employed by more | | | | And also, there is someone who can teach you the |
| people today. They may purchase or build their own | | | | tricks of the trade. |
| power systems as extra energy or alternative energy. | | | | Getting Off That Grid |
| They may also use this to lessen or totally eliminate | | | | Many people who are impressed with how they are |
| their use of grid electricity. This is also an economical | | | | being helped by their wind turbines yearn to be helped |
| way to cut down on the power bill. Some home | | | | even more. And they build more and more of these |
| owners attest to at least 25% savings off their power | | | | devices, eventually creating for them a "wind farm". If |
| bill since the use of wind power. And to date, more | | | | one turbine generates 25% of their home's power, |
| and more people are trying to build their own DIY wind | | | | then having four of them would take them off the grid. |
| turbine. | | | | So the more of them you install, the more you can |
| There are several guidebooks available in the market | | | | shave off that power bill. And maybe eventually, you |
| that would teach you how to build your own turbine. | | | | can also get off the grid with your DIY wind turbine. |
| Some may come with the materials while others don't. | | | | |