Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Power 4 Home - Build A Home Wind Generator

By Dave Graham

Nowadays, energy has been a talked about issue regarding its negative effects on the environment and the consumers' finances due to the continuous increase in fees. A way to remedy this is to Build A Home Wind Generator in order to lower the costs of fees and somehow help the environment.

Building a home wind generator actually costs very little but somehow helps you a great deal. It doesn't only cut corners for you. You can also use this as a sort of science project for you and your kids to give them a better view on how it works.

It is quite simple to build a home wind generator. The components are simple to understand. It is like a turbine that transforms the earth's wind into natural kinetic energy through its shaft which is turned by its propellers. This shaft connects to a generator makes use of electromagnetic induction in order to create electricity from kinetic energy. This means that the magnets are spinning around a conductor in order to charge up batteries or simply return the power to the electricity grid it has been once connected to.

It doesn't cost so much to build a home wind generator, nor is it too difficult to build. You just have to make sure that you have access to the right kind of motor for your generator and the proper knowledge on energy production using it and the measurements for the efficiency of the propeller blades. The material and the size of the shaft will also matter since this will be the ones necessary to be driven by the wind, as well as the circuitry that is required to charge the batteries.

The most important thing that would make the most out of the wind generator is the tower that will hold it up. Anybody who is motivated and to build a home wind generator should follow through with its construction. I'm pretty sure you will not be regret once it is completed.

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