Learn How to Save Big with Homemade Wind Turbines

As alternative energy technology advances, becoming both more accessible and more affordable, the homemade wind turbine emerges as consumers' best investment. More powerful and reliable than solar panels, the homemade wind turbine can supply all of a family's regular energy needs. Most homemade wind turbines generate enough electricity to serve the family, charge the batteries, and sell come back to the local utility, which must buy energy from your small power plant.

A homemade wind turbine doesn't have to be a complex project. Literally hundreds of websites, blogs, and other internet resources show exactly how to design, build, and connect a homemade wind turbine. Most of them draw from builders' own experiences, so that they show not only the proper steps to take but also all of the steps to avoid. The websites universally celebrate consumers' savings—not only in energy costs but also in construction and installation costs. On average, homemade wind turbines cost only 10% of solar panels' construction and installation prices; in other words, for each dollar you spend on your wind turbine, you save $9 against the cost of a solar panel. And homemade wind turbines typically produce 35% more electricity than solar panels.

Wind turbines have proven more reliable and durable than solar panels, because they have no fragile parts; and all of their parts are naturally designed to withstand the elements.