Archive for July, 2008


How to Build a Wind Turbine for $100

One of the questions that i get asked most at Residential Wind Power is how to build a wind turbine. If you are handy with the tools and like a weekend project they certainly don’t come much more rewarding or cost effective as to build your own wind turbine. Why would you want to build [...]

How to Save Electricity and Money through Lighting

The ability to produce your own electricity through renewable resources is a wonderful feeling.  Not only are you helping out the environment, you are also helping out your bank balance by reducing your need to buy electricity from the utility company. Having an environmental conscious is all well and good but before you go and [...]

Tidal Turbine Power Station Switched on to Power over 1000 Homes

Although this is not exactly a residential wind turbine it certainly works on the same principal as a vertical axis wind turbine or a spiral wind mill.  The turbine in question doesn’t convert wind into eco friendly electricity but instead uses the ebb and flow of ocean waves to generate 1.2 megawatts of clean hydropower. [...]