It is hard to believe, but some windmill generator projects create too much power!

Imagine that as a problem – creating too much electricity for free!

Well, in Denmark this is a problem, but they have created a fantastic solution to using up all of the power from their windmill generators – Hydrogen Fuel Cells

This is enabling regular people to create Hydrogen for heating on top of free electricity – all from their windmill generator project

It really is amazing how clean and green this technology is and how simple processes can be adapted all from having a windmill generator like this

Just when you think you’ve seen every type of windmill generator – something like this comes along!

It does seems that the windmill generator component may have been more of an afterthought, but if this actually gets built, I’d like to see the generator in action.  The whole building using the wind to generate it’s own power – totally fantastic!

Now the average windmill generator does not need to be built on this scale, but any windmill generator can produce power for you, in fact lots of electricity for free

Some serious recommendations on resources to help you build your own windmill generator are coming into the blog soon, so stay tuned.  In the meantime , enjoy this computer simulation of the windmill generator building!

Now your average windmill generator does not look like this (see video below). However, whatever the shape of your windmill generator, it’s the power that it creates that is important. Personally, I really like these new windmill generator designs, since they evoke something quite like the shape of DNA strands twisted together. It makes it really easy for me to start saying ‘hippy things’ with a shape like that, but the creation of electricity is the important bit and if this design of windmill generator has anything going for it, it is output!

The average windmill generator relies upon, either a good natural wind position or the use of a tailpiece to direct it into the breeze. Ant windmill generator can work well like this, however the ‘helix’ design claims to focus the wind no matter which direction the wind blows from. It is interesting and I like the windmill generator design just for the sake of looks!

Everyone can create much of their electricity needs with windmill generator, yet there are things that you can do now, since the world is seeking ways to manage a severe impending energy crisis – so what can you do?

You can act before getting a windmill generator in use – Start by using less power, that’s less Gas and less Electricity

Consuming less Electricity is simple – Switch your electrical goods OFF when you are no longer using them (not you refrigerator or freezer, they need to stay on to work!)

Try to keep your freezer pretty full. Freezer compartments use less power when the food in them is all at the same temperature and with less air in there

On the flip side, try to keep your refrigerator less full. The refrigerator needs more space for air to circulate and so should not piled high in there

Turn electrical items OFF – not on Standby – OFF at the power socket. That way they are not consuming any electricity

What is amazing, is that once these things become habit, you are saving money by consuming less, even before you start generating your own electricity from a windmill generator at home!

Insulate the roof space – this helps to retain more heat inside the house where you want it, rather than be lost through the roof

If you are replacing electrical goods, look for the most energy efficient rated products, that way your windmill generator can contribute to a bigger percentage of your electricity needs. Get plans for a windmill generator – good ones, that are easy to understand and you can build this whilst already consuming less and saving money!

Any Winter is generally a lot colder than the Autumn and is often more windy, so it’s a great time to spend some evenings getting your windmill generator started. The sooner you start, the sooner you will start generating electricity for yourself

Funny how the idea of building your own wind generator for power has come around again!

Let’s face it a windmill is NOT new technology – it’s how we use it that’s slightly different.  In ‘days of old’ we would use the power of the wind to turn sails for direct power, that is to grind cereals or for a belt drive to power simple machinery

Then, the wind and the power of running water was about all we could harness from natural resources.  Then we built the steam engine, fueled by coal and the old technology was put aside for the advanced technology

Fast forward to the present day and we are building wind generators again!  Why?  Because we discovered that burning tons of fossil fuels such as coal and gas creates millions of tons of excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.  All of sudden, the wind generator is good news!

Can we make more use of our natural resources such as wind? Between the passage of time and the development of humanity we are slowly beginning to realize how vital our world is.  The benefits of wind power needs to be seen in a broad context

The beauty of a wind generator is that it creates ZERO emissions, even taking account of the materials used and any maintenance over 50 years, it is still almost carbon neutral.  Just look at what it can do!  Produce 1,000s of Watts of electricity over it’s lifetime – all for free

We all love free and even the knowledge to build a suitable domestic wind generator and the materials involved won’t break the bank.  Better still, the payback (the return of money saved versus money spent) is very fast and so you reap the benefits very quickly

What we need to understand is that as the wind speed doubles, it will create 8 Times the power at the wind generator.  If the wind speed is tripled, you will get 27 times more output on the windmill generator!

Realistically, a wind speed of around 5 mph (miles per hour) is fine.  Couple this with an efficient windmill generator with suitable blade length and you will get a lot of power.  Something to understand for calculating, is that the longer the turbine blades – the more power output (you had probably guessed that factor!)  By doubling the length of the blades on your wind generator, the power output increase four times!  So it’s nice to build blades to a decent length to help the output.

Whatever style of motor you use to generate electricity, it will need some minor maintenance from time to time, so consider the fact that you will need to get to it again the future.  If you have space for an 8 foot blade on your wind generator, that’s great, but remember you will need to set this very high indeed and this will put your motor along way away for any maintenance (such as changes brushes or bearings).

OK enough of the technical (honestly, you don’t need to be a genius for some good returns), all you really need is a good plan to work to and ideally a proven design.  Then making a sensible windmill generator is easy.

Well many believe that it must be difficult or maybe that is is expensive. The truth is, that anyone with some common sense, a few decent tools and a decent plan, can build a wind generator.

Let us understand how they work first of all.  A wind generator extracts some of the power from the wind blowing (and it doesn’t need to be more than a few miles per hour) and by rotating, converts the wind energy directly into electricity.  Pretty cool huh!

Now you could bound around your garage throwing bits together and see if it works (this can be fun), but better still is to search out some sensible guidance from the joys of the Internet.  There is lots of advice, photos and videos, so get to understand the subject a little and hear some of the success tales of good wind generator construction.

If you have a good guide or some plans already, so much the better, since you should have a headstart on having to experiment and calculate everything yourself!
There are only a few elements to bring together for a decent wind generator:

Some type of turbine blade (so that the wind is efficiently tapped for energy),
An effective electric motor to convert wind energy through rotation to electrical current,
Ideally, a tail (or vane) to ensure that your blades on the wind generator face into the wind for the maximum amount of time and some connection to your home electrical system or batteries to store the power generated.

Now, of course any number of these areas can be challenging, but stick with it a while and we will try to keep it simple!

Below is a great video about building a wind generator – I hope you enjoy!

I love this video, since it really helps to get an understanding of generating electricity from wind power.  I hope that you find it useful as an introduction

This helps us to understand a little better, that generating power from a windmill is obviously connected to wind speed (we are not that dumb!), but now we know that if the wind speed doubles – the generating power increases by 8 Times!

That’s some number and really expalins why it is so important to pick the best possible spot to capture the most breeze AND to to get the generator design right for your environment, so that you can make the most of every MPH of wind