Homemade Wind Turbine

Should you need a quick way of getting a wind turbine up and running, watch below. Ingenious way of recycling a ceiling fan. It could generate enough electricity to power up a light during a blackout.

This ceiling fan generator is working very well. It puts out good voltage with very little wind. As you can see by the trees and shrubs in the background, the breeze was very light. When a brisk wind would come up, the fan blades would really kick in. Could easily do 12+ volts in a good steady wind of 5-10 MPH.

What do you think? Do you believe you could put one together and figure out what could be powered up via this turbine?

Wind … as the green future unfolds.

Oregon Field Guide: Wind Turbine School

Go to a classroom three hundred feet in the air to learn all about wind turbines and what it takes to keep them spinning. As more and more wind turbines come on line in north central Oregon, Columbia Gorge Community College’s Renewable Energy Technology program is training the local workforce to meet the need for skilled technicians who can repair and maintain these technological marvels.

I do not think this is the job for me.

Wind Turbine …. as the green future unfolds.

In The Solar Energy World, This Process Delivers More Energy Per Acre And It’s Priced Comparable To Coal Derived Energy.

A small solar company Amonix, based out of Seal Beach, California, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), combined talents to developed a solar power concentrator that generates electricity at prices competitive with natural gas. The Amonix 7700 Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Solar Power Generator, is the size of an IMAX screen but costs much less than comparable generators, partly because of the efficiency of its small solar cells. It delivers more “energy per acre” than anything yet available in the solar energy world.

NREL’s partnerships with industry, such as this one with Amonix, are key to reaching aggressive White House goals including lowering solar energy’s installed cost to $1 a watt. That would be a great step towards reducing our dependence on foreign oil and releasing Big Oil’s strangle hold on the whole wide world. (more…)