Your Questions About Windmill

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Wires are usually connected to a battery pack that is connected to the home. That way if the wind is blowing at night when you are not using electricity, you will have it in the morning. This is especially true of solar panels. They sometimes add a generator here. In many states, people sell their excess energy back to the utility company. The meter on your house actually spins backwards.

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Plenty of ideas for the windmill portion at
http://otherpower.com/toymill.html#chispito

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“Real Goods” has a wonderful catalog for all sorts of alternative energy devices. I’d try there.

Http://www.gaiam.com/realgoods/default.htm

They’ll also help you with other issues like batteries and other methods to help you keep power when the wind isn’t blowing.

My grandparents had wind power before the REA came to their farm. Even after, they still used wind power for their well. Of course, we’re talking Nebraska where the wind blows *all* the time (-:. Good luck! I think people who plan ahead will have an advantage when the oil runs out.

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If you can get past the hurdle of having sufficient wind and any local codes or ordinances then it is certainly possible for you to have a wind generator. You can store the electricity in batteries and use a inverter to make AC power for your use.

Unfortunately it probably won’t provide the kind of relief you are hoping for. If you want to look further you could try some websites similar to this one:

http://www.mikeswindmillshop.com/wgenerators.html

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To be honest, I need more info to answer, but I will try and “wing it”.

Yes, size would have an effect on output, but what about surface area, pitch of the blades, number of blades.

Imagine if you will a bicycle wheel that you have put some playing cards in the spokes to act as a windmill. If you increased the number of cards, would it not capture more wind? What would happen if you changed the pitch of the cards? Could you get a smaller wheel to capture as much wind energy as the bigger wheel?

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Well i just made a windmill for my history project-
i made it out of a
cardboard box
paper towel roll and a
straw

P.S hoped this helped

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A shady general contractor can be tough to collect against. They structure the company as a shell possesing no assets, so there’s no real property to seize/lein. You can get a lein against their bank accounts — but then they just open a new account, or even a new corporation. It’s possible for an attorney to go after the personal assets of the corporate principals – but this will easily run several thousand dollars in legal fees. Still – your first step is to talk to an attorney – but be prepared for bad news. Depending on the size of the judgement, and how slippery Windmill Pools is, it just may not be worth pursuing.

Unfortunately, that’s not the end of your headaches. By paying the general contractor in full before completion of work, you’re double-y screwed. If Windmill Pools didn’t pay their subcontractors, the subs can file a “workman’s lein” against your home and hold you liable for the work they did – even though you’ve already paid the Windmill Pools. Again, talk to an attorney. There are specific time limits on when a workmans lein must be filed. Your best bet here is that the subs missed a key filing deadline – otherwise, you’ll be paying for the work twice.

The big lesson to take away from this — NEVER pay any contractor in full, in advance, and ONLY work with licensed and insured/bonded contractors. A legitimate contractor will carry a bond or insurance, which protects you from both unpaid subs, and any injuries that occur on the jobsite (otherwise, you’re also on the hook for any work injuries). Insist on seeing a copy of their bond/insurance, and CALL to verify that it’s current and valid. Also, always use a payment schedule with payments tied to construction mile stones (e.g. Excavation 20% – framing and rough plumbing 20% – plaster and deck 20% – equipment and final plumbing 20% – final building inspection sign-off 20%). Typically, these correlate to points in the building inspection process, and you only pay when the building inspector has signed off on that stage of construction.

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Potentially not a tornado, as we have seen even the stoutest building fall under its might.

Earthquakes make them open to the caliber of shaking and moving an earthquake can generate. The windmill is a structure like any other and even the best building can sustain damage.

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Go to the site: http://instantproducts.info . I built my entire windmill in 1 afternoon. My electric bill went from 400 dollars to 50 dollars. Give it a try!