Making electricity with wind
August 30th, 2009
Wind Power Generators have been around for an exceedingly long time, harnessing of the wind power and converting it into generators of electric power is not a modern concept, and in fact wind power is so ordinary it has been often over looked as an energy power supply. Like sunlight, wind power is also inexhaustible and with the efficient usage of know-how and up-to-date generators wind power can bring to us an exceedingly clean and renewable supply of electricity.
It has only been in recent years the energy companies have been forced to invest billions of dollars to install wind farms with hundreds of wind power generators and hook up these into the electricity grid structure. These wind farms are a hideous scar on the landscape, require a considerable capital investment and extremely expensive to look after; despite these negative points wind farms still generate electricity for our home demands and are not exhausting carbon gas into the air. Nevertheless why must we allow these giant wind generators taking up a considerable land area? If we look at the generator in your car it is the same idea but much smaller. I think we can all figure out why we are all led to believe that a wind power generator is very complex and expensive to install in an everyday public home. There is no rationale why these giant wind generators cannot be scaled down to a portable size and installed in every home.
There are four main parts to a Wind Power Generator system these are:
1. The Wind Powered Generator – Wind Mills or Turbine with the purpose of the capture of Wind Energy by rotating a propeller which rotates a shaft and powers a generator.
2. Power Storage – The common household uses in the region of electricity per day, a small home wind power generator is more than ample to supply the typical household but storage is compulsory for those days of no wind, electricity is stored in a string of batteries.
3. DC/AC Converter – wind power generators create dC electrical current this is converted to AC electrical current used for your household.
4. Power Stabilizer – this device is what delivers your home-made power into your household and stabilizes the power feed to be constant and uniform.
We are all aware that Global Warming is swiftly becoming a key dilemma and the cause of this is our dependency on carbon fossil fuels. Governments and the Big Energy Producing Companies tell us not to be concerned; they are working on the dilemma. When was the last moment you saw a government do anything correct? And how much can you trust Big Business that has a monopoly? Our only option is to start little and grow gigantic to tackle this quickly pending tragedy of global warming, Rome did not fall in a day, it fell one Roman at a time, we should all become Romans.
By taking a tiny step you can become a Roman by installing Wind Power Generators or an alternate supply that will turn out 20% or 100% of your household electrical supply; you will receive many benefits:
1. The installation costs are a tax deductions therefore the system costs is basically free.
2. You no longer pay an electricity cost so that cash stays in your pocket.
3. You will no longer be putting carbon gas into the ecosystem and taking a large step to stop the green house effect.
4. Your neighbors will be encouraged to install their own system when they observe your system working, farther reducing the carbon gas effects. There are additional benefits as well, and that is a pretty respectable return for an only some small dollars investment.
It is a great idea and feeling to know you are doing your part to reduce the carbon output and helping to clean up our ecosystem for the future generations. The sooner we all start the less amount of destruction is being done and the easier it is for Mother Nature to heal.
