To: HarleyLady27
In the past most farms had windmills to pump well water and even as inefficient as those windmills were they were quite useful as a source of intermittent power. So too a windmill on your house might serve well if the power could be stored like the water pumped by farm windmills.
Therein lies the problem: How to store the power. And how to store it at a low enough cost to be worth the investment of time and money. If the purpose of the windmill is to reduce energy costs there are other, better ways of doing that at lower cost.
If your goal is to make your house independent of the grid then you might have more work and expense then you're willing to devote to the idea.
65 posted on
08/11/2008 9:01:52 AM PDT by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
If your goal is to make your house independent of the grid then you might have more work and expense then you're willing to devote to the idea. The choice is easy for off-grid. Just calculate the cost of gas or diesel needed each day for power.
67 posted on
08/11/2008 9:24:05 AM PDT by
Realism
(Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
To: count-your-change
So too a windmill on your house might serve well if the power could be stored like the water pumped by farm windmills. Therein lies the problem: How to store the power. Convert wind energy, i.e. kenetic energy, into potential energy.
HOW TO STORE WIND POWER.
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