Modern Day Windmills
Get up close to these modern day windmills and their hugeness is the first thing you notice. If you are like me, you probably have wondered if the technology that is utilized to make these large wind turbines cost effective could be created in smaller residential units. We did some research and this is what we found. There are some companies that offer residential wind turbine units but setting one up in your backyard probably is not feasible. For a wind turbine to work more effectively it has to be about 50 to 80 feet high which means that you would have to construct a very tall tower that may not sit well with your neighbors due to aesthetics, noise and safety reasons. Estates and compounds, and more recently individual households, are now able to affordably install wind turbines and harness the power of the wind to produce their very own electricity and live off the grid; all of this without having to wait for your local power company to make the switch to this new generation of power production. Many options have recently come available to the individual from expensive units that produce and excess of electricity to be sold back to your power company to kits that you assemble and install all the way to plans for creating your very own wind turbines for virtually no overhead from recycled parts. Look into it, you can start living in the future today. Persians are believed to be the first to use it with the purpose being to turn grain grinding stones. In modern times, the sole purpose is to generate electricity. On a large scale, this means wind farms. Wind farms are simply large collections of wind turbines in a defined area. If you have ever driven east out of San Francisco, you have seen the wind farm along the freeway. While it is both intoxicating and a pollution free source of electricity, a wind farm has definite limitations. The biggest limitation of wind farms is the electricity produced.Source: Wind Turbines
