| With the rising costs of electricity many people are | | | | power your home. If you tie both systems together |
| desperately looking for ways save on their power bill. | | | | into a series of deep cycle batteries you can be |
| Would you like to learn how to save a hundred dollars | | | | prepared for almost anything. |
| or more off your electric bill each month? | | | | Last year my son and I decided to try to build a |
| You can easily do this by building your own | | | | windmill on our property over the summer to see if we |
| homemade windmill or a solar panel system for your | | | | could reduce our electrical bill for our home and see if it |
| home. It's not as hard as you might think. There are | | | | really works. After we found a decent guide to follow, |
| quite a few home alternative energy systems, but the | | | | it took us a few days to collect all the materials we |
| most easy to use ones (and most commonly | | | | needed (our guide gave us quite a few tips on how to |
| implemented) are solar energy and wind power | | | | find recycled parts locally) . Then we took a weekend I |
| systems. | | | | was off work and put it all together. It was surprising |
| Many people see wind power as a supplement to use | | | | how easy it was, and we learned alot in the process. |
| with our current energy sources, as they think it is not | | | | Just from that windmill we are now saving about $30 |
| dependable enough to supply consistent power to their | | | | off our electric bill every month, which is pretty nice |
| home. But this simply isn't true as most windmill | | | | considering it only cost us $227 to build. |
| systems will have a deep cycle battery system set up | | | | We are now looking at connecting a solar panel |
| to conserve the excess power you generate so you | | | | system to our home and seeing how much we can |
| can use it later when the wind isn't blowing. | | | | save using both sources of power. Especially since |
| When you combine a solar panel system with a wind | | | | summer time is almost here and the sun is coming in |
| power system for your home you should be able to | | | | full force. |
| either completely eliminate your electrical bill or reduce | | | | Building our alternative power system was fun and |
| it drastically every month. On the days when the wind | | | | there's no reason why yours shouldn't be too. Not only |
| isn't blowing you will have the solar panels to generate | | | | will it help the environment but it will save you a lot of |
| power and when the sun isn't shining your windmill will | | | | money as well. |