Thread: Windmills for all!

I would love to be able to install a small domestic wind turbine to my home, but I don't know how possible or effective it would be for every single house to have one installed.

Hmm... But how about if every household in a city have at least one windmill. Not for their own house but for a major wind power plant in the city that accumulates all the electricity being gathered to each windmill? That could be great.

This might not work in a city like New York, or those with mostly high-rise buildings everywhere. Plus you also have to consider the place to be be more windy. After all, it's wind that drives it.

We are thinking of carrying the Home Energy V100 or V200 Energy Ball.

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Warren
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Originally Posted by minttwist

Does anybody know if it is feasable for every household to have a windmill, perhaps integrated into the chimney. Something small, compact and that will produce some electrcity, enough to say run the house for an hour or two? If 30 million householeds all have one, think of the savings that could be made!

Any ideas?

Its a nice idea, It is possible, but there some constraints and difficulties in wind power, compared to the solar energy which is much more simpler.

The Wind mills have moving parts and there are always chances of damage and require much maintainance.

Wind mills cannot be fit anywhere, also it is little costlier.

Windmills are usually larger ones. Usually they require many controlling circuity. One to detect the wind direction, to align the wind mill in the wind direction. usually when there is less wind, to start up the windmill, it requires a motor.

so it requires much more maintaining and monitoring

OH! Its awesome idea of installing a wind mill in each house but I think it requires a large area , and our home must be situated at sufficient distance from it .Hey !can you tell me what will be the list of minimum requirements for that?

I believe that this could possibly become a reality. I could even see governments passing out coupons for windmills and solar panels, just like they did with digital television boxes. Not to mention the projected monumental drop in costs in the next year or so.

I think you could have every home with a verticle windmill that would help cover some of the load but not all of the load..