| Alternative energy production is a way to break our | | | | pursue. What we needed was a straightforward set |
| dependence on foreign oil as well as create many | | | | of plans. |
| new "green jobs." This could be achieved by taking | | | | Our solar panel array just was not sufficiently large to |
| advantage of solar panels for homes and residential | | | | run our home and we figured a giant wind turbine |
| wind turbines. | | | | would add to our power supply enough to meet the |
| When we consider the high cost of buying a turbine to | | | | increased demand of 3 kids growing up in a mainly |
| run our off gird home, learning how to build a home | | | | standard home. |
| made wind turbine became necessary to our family. | | | | Materials needed for the construction include: |
| The price of 1000w models wanted to run our | | | | 1000w of power production |
| replenish-able energy system cost so much that is not | | | | 40 foot tower |
| easily affordable by the majority the reason why we | | | | To build a homemade wind turbine is very easy and |
| have to create our own wind turbines. | | | | cheap if there is a good source of inexpensive parts |
| Considering this high purchase price, we decided to opt | | | | that we could put along with relatively simple tools. You |
| for the choice of building our own, as we revealed | | | | can learn how to build a home-made Wind Turbine as |
| when we saw the cost of new ones. The difficulty | | | | the plans are easy to follow, require simple tools and |
| was that no simple plans existed to just do that. All of | | | | no prior experience. This is necessitated because not |
| the turbine plans we encountered called for complex | | | | everyone can afford the cost of a new turbine. |
| layout and much more welding than we cared to | | | | |