How Much Power Do You Need Your Windmill To Make?

Do you know how much power you need to generate each month?

This is something you really need to know BEFORE you start to design your alternative system. If you don’t have this information, up front, you may be deeply disappointed in the generation plan that you ultimately choose. Fortunately, this is an easy task, and it doesn’t involve higher mathematics, either!

Watts going on here?

Electrical power consumption is measured in Watts. Each of your appliances has a power rating, generally in Watts if you live in the U.S. For example, if you were to run a typical clothes dryer for one hour, you’d use approximately 5000 Watts. A color television will use about 200 Watts per hour. Figure how many hours per month you use the appliance (say 20 hours for the dryer) and here’s how many watts you’ll have used:

5000 (Watts) x 20 hours = 100,000 watts or 100 kWh (kilowatt-hours).

If your utility company charges you 7.8 cents per kWh, then you pay $7.80/month – just for the dryer! Go do the same calculations for the rest of your electrical appliances, and you’ll see that the cost of electricity is no small number!

• Air Conditioner (12,000 BTU) = 1500 Watts x 200 hours/month = 300 kWh = $23.40 each month!

• 75 Watt light bulb = 75 Watts x 100 hours/month = 7.5 kWh = $.59 each month (for each bulb)!

• See http://www.cornhusker-power.com/householdappliances.asp for more electrical appliances and their electrical requirements.

Now, add up some of the power requirements of your favorite appliances, and you’ll get an idea of how many Watts of electrical energy your home needs at a point in time. For example;

• 6) 75 Watt Light bulbs = 450 Watts

• (1) Television = 200 Watts

• (1) Computer = 365 Watts

• (1) Electric Blanket = 175 Watts

• (1) Kitchen Clock = 3 Watts

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Total Watts required to operate all of these items at one time = 1,193 Watts

If you simultaneously used all of the above appliances for one hour they would use =1,193 Watt-Hours of electrical power. One windmill generator producing 1000 Watts would not quite be enough, and you’d have to draw down your batteries for this power.

This means the 1000 Watt windmill had a good chance to charge your batteries. If the batteries didn’t get a charge, you’ll be getting your power from the grid.

Given this hypothetical situation, you now have some factual data to determine what size of windmill you’d need to get, to satisfy all of your electrical requirements. This is a good starting point, for sure.

More bang for your alternative energy buck could be the installation of solar panels to supplement your windmill. There may be wind-less days (as well as cloudy days), no system will ever be 100%, but if you can store some energy in good times (through batteries), you may never have to use “the grid” again!

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Green Renewable Energy

“I Thought Solar Power was Expensive (and Complicated).”

A few years ago, I started looking into solar energy. Just like you, I started with an online search exploring on how I could save money with solar electricity.

I was shocked to see how much it cost to have solar panels installed at my house! The estimate I received was over $35,000 and the payback time for that was just way too long. I certainly didn’t have that kind of money, not even close.

I was resigned to the idea of paying the electric company each and every month until I met a friend who had a solution. My friend explained that he was building his own solar panels for just a fraction of the cost of new retail solar panels. And he wasn’t alone.

I had no idea…

I had no idea that thousands of people were making their own solar panels. My friend had collected various drawings and “do-it-yourself ideas” but nothing was very organized and there wasn’t anything I could find online that gave me details on how to do it. There were people talking about it, but it wasn’t until my friend and I developed GreenDIYenergy that there was a step-by-step guide on the topic.

“Now There is an Easy-to-Follow Guide That Walks you Through Every Step-by-Step Process of Building Solar Energy.”

How much money can you save?

For too many years your only option was to buy retail solar panels at $1,125. With installation, that could Total Over $27,000 for your entire house!*

*2007 Installed Costs from ScienceDaily.com ($7.50/watt)

Now, with the help of this detailed “DIY Solar Panel” guide you can join the revolution of Do-It-Yourselfers who have figured out how to cheaply create their own solar power.

This DIY Guide will walk you through the step-by-step process of constructing 60- to 120- watt Solar Panels for under $200. You can easily do it for less than $100 if you do a little extra work in collecting materials.

In fact, You Could Actually Build One For Less Than $27 if you took the time to rebuild and connect “broken solar cells” together (which isn’t that hard to do).

Before you start…

Before you try to build your own solar power, you need to have the right tools. You need to have the step-by-step process that I explain in this guide. I made it a personal mission to create the best solar panel guide available. I searched the Internet for months looking for the best ideas and designs for building solar panels.

I have put all of these ideas into one simple and easy-to-follow solar panel guide. With the fully illustrated process even the Non-Do-It-Yourselfer can quickly learn how to create solar energy at home.

What if I’m not the  “Handyman Type”?

No problem, everything is broken down into Easy to Follow Step-by-Step Instructions. I’ve been told by numerous people that the guide was able to take even the most difficult solar panel construction methods and distill them down to simple and easy steps that even complete beginners can easily follow.

And don’t worry if you don’t consider yourself “technically inclined,” this guide will show you how to do it step by step. And we won’t leave you alone! There is a list of resources and support to help you with your project all the way until it is completed.

“Is this a joke?”

No, this is the real deal!

Once you open this detailed DIY Guide you will see exactly how to build your own solar energy for less than $200.

Step-by-step pictures, diagrams and schematics show you how everything is done. There is even a Video Library so you can see real solar panels being created.

You’ll learn where to find the cheapest (or sometimes free) materials needed for your project. Through years of trial and error we have mastered the art of buying cheap solar parts so you can save money from your very first solar panel. You might double the cost of your solar panel without these money saving resources and buying lists and more than pay for the cost of the guide we are offering.

We have several groups of high school and college students working on DIY Solar Panels right now. And hey, if they can do it, then you can do it!

Click Below To Get All The Details on GreenDIYEnergy!

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