For years politicians have been using the price of energy, especially oil, as a platform for running on. Promises for reducing our dependency on foreign oil and putting more effort into the use and development of natural gas, wind and solar energy have abounded with no results.

To become an energy independent nation we the citizens will ultimately have to take control of our own future. By taking a stand in our local communities for the use of wind and solar energy we will begin the ball rolling. By letting our politicians know that we the people are taking a stand and that if they want to be in office when the next turn comes up they had best get on the band wagon we are designing our own futures.

If you don’t take a stand you are still designing your own future but it most likely won’t be the one you hope for. We can do this one home at a time by making our own wind power homes. By using a horizontal or vertical axis turbine to produce just 30% of the energy you use you can save money and build a better future for yourself and your family.

Just think, if 10% of the home owners in the US were to build their own vertical axis wind turbine and turn their homes into wind power homes that produce 30% of the electrical energy they use that would be an overall increase of about 5% of totally renewable energy use across the nation.

When you add the commercial wind farms into the equation we could reduce our dependency on fossil fuels by a total of 10% or more over the next 2 years instead of 10 years. This alone would make our politicians start understanding where we the people we heading and give them the power to make that change themselves.

Solar and wind power homes are the way to reduce your electrical bill. When you consider that the average home uses over 1,000 kilowatt hours (KWH) of electricity every month and that with a couple thousand dollars and a little ingenuity on your part you could be providing over 500 of those KWH, the dollar signs begin to appear in your eyes.

Can you imagine living near the beach and a good size storm comes in with winds of 100 miles per hour or more? The electricity goes out, your heat or ac stops and you are left in the dark.

That wouldn’t be the case if you have a vertical axis wind turbine that produces 500 KWH of electricity with an average wind speed of 12 miles per hour. With wind speeds of 100 mph your electrical output using a vertical axis turbine would be multiple times the average.

When wind speeds double your output doesn’t just double it increases exponentially based on the maximum output of the wind turbine design. That means that small increase in wind speed creates a large increase in electrical output.

For a future of plentiful, clean, renewable energy it will take you taking a stand. Your future is in your hands, make the most of it. Find out how you can turn your home into a solar or wind power home.

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