When you think of “windmill power” what comes to your mind? Would it happen to be something like the picture on your right? You do know that man has harnessed the FREE power of the wind for thousands of years. It has been used to power the sails on a sailing ship, as a means of pumping water from shallow and deep wells and many more things. The good part is that for now the wind is still free so why aren’t you using it to harness its power for your own benefit?

We use giant coal fired power stations spewing immense quantities of carbon into the atmosphere and nuclear power plants that have the potential to spew who knows what into the atmosphere, to produce electrical energy we use to power or homes. Yet as a society we fail to utilize the FREE sources of energy that are readily available. You can see the folly in this, but we continue to allow big corporations and the politicians that receive big campaign donations from these large corporations, to continue to operate carbon producing coal power plants and potentially devastating nuclear power plants.

Well the big question here is “why not harness the power of the wind to generate power?” The wind has been around since the beginning of time and will, I believe, continue to blow on us until the end of time. That is way more than you or I can say for the non-renewable energy sources, like oil, that we are now consuming worldwide at an alarming rate.

One of the major problem with windmill power “known today as wind power generation” until recently has been the cost of producing and utilizing renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. With the continued rise in cost of fuel oil and gas, renewable energy solutions are becoming a viable alternative. Also as a bonus that will save you money, more research is being done to help reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of renewable energy generators.

What most people don’t realize is that a home wind generator can be produced very inexpensively by anyone that possesses common sense and just a few home handyman skills. So, if you are a person like that you can build a wind generator cheaply and use free wind power to drive it. Look, even a politician should be able to understand the benefit that provides individuals and to society as a whole. Of course I am sure they will have to appoint a committee to determine how our wonderful government can tax you for the use of windmill power.

Now in all seriousness, one single home built wind generator will not allow you to disconnect from the power grid. The thing is this, if you generate part of the power that you use for free, then you are not only helping the environment but you are helping your finances as well. Remember, you can always build more than one wind turbine or maybe if the wind in your area isn’t consistent you can add solar power to you renewable energy system and create all the power you need.

Since you are reading this post I am sure that you, like other environmentally conscious people, worry that during the last 100 years (which is such a very small part of history) we have decided to turn away from renewable energy sources. Our government and the biggest portion f our population has not given much thought for the next 100, 200, 500 years and what the continued use of fossil fuels will do to our planet, yet most of us have literally on our doorstep, a renewable source of energy - lets use it.

Build a wind generator for your own use. Your windmill will not look like the traditional windmill used hundreds of years ago but it will produce way more power. Get your guide to build a wind generator here.

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