Renewable wind energy is the fastest growing source of power of any renewable energy sources and technologies. With renewable wind energy, the flow of air turns wind turbines to create electricity. As the speed of the wind turning the turbines increases the amount of power the turbine produces increases as well. In areas where winds are strong, renewable wind energy is a smart choice for providing power to homes and businesses.
Even if you don’t live in a windy area, you can still supplement your current electricity supply by utilizing renewable wind energy. The best part is by using do-it-yourself guides; even the least skilled handymen can build their own windmills and start using renewable wind energy to lower their electric bills each month. However, if you do live in a particularly windy area you can feasibly generate an abundance of electricity from renewable wind energy systems.
It is also conceivable to build several wind turbines to power your renewable wind energy system. Most of us have seen the pictures of the wind farms being built to supplement power to whole cities. This is a little much for a homestead, but even small dwellings can benefit from multiple smaller wind turbines. In many states, it is possible to sell the excess electricity you generate from your renewable wind energy system back to the utilities companies.
The very best part of integrating a renewable wind energy system into your home or business is the environmental impact. Renewable wind energy produces little to no pollution, no harmful greenhouse gases and no methane or carbon dioxide-which contribute to global warming. And of course the savings those homeowners can realize after their initial investment in renewable wind energy.
It is definitely worthwhile to learn more about renewable wind energy. By building your own wind turbines you can add needed dollars to your pocket and help the environment at the same time. Renewable wind energy. Free power from the wind. Sounds beautiful, doesn’t it?
This is an page from my free ebook "Why Build Your Own Wind and Solar System" available at EarthPowerEnergySystems.net

Jerry Standefer

although i realize that incentives (money) are the bottom line in why we don't have many wind farms in northeast ohio, surely there must be some way(s) of really,REALLY pushing this issue. anyone who can offer suggestions to what the common person (me) can do to help, please let me know.

“I found a comment about gaming as a tool for economic development in Brewed Fresh Daily yesterday. Chas Rich mentions that the threat of gaming may not disappear with the issues of Native tribes (the Shawnee) planning to claim land rights in Ohio and open gambling establishments. While we certainly owe all this land to the native people since our ancestors took it from them by force, and they can do whatever they need to do to make that land profitable (this is a debt we early colonists incurred that will reach beyond our time), the native people might consider alternatives to gaming as a means to generate cash. The Shawnee might think about what this tribal leader of the Kumeyaay Nation from Southern California is saying about gaming vs. wind farming on tribal lands. It is the first segment of three on this KPBS science show from San Diego. The Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians has diversified their economic base by placing wind turbines on their land and powering 12,000 homes in San Diego. Now they are discussing building a hotel for tourists who come to see the turbines and a tour to the top of a turbine some 22 stories up to the hub of one of the towers.

The Campo Indians have their water issues together, too. Not only has the Campo Indian Tribe successfully repaired damage and restored lost vegetation and habitat, but its initial attempts at restoration have also reaped numerous unexpected benefits.

While there is much talk about wind power on Lake Erie, we might also benefit from towers and small wind onshore, maybe on reclaimed tribal lands. But the real economic boon to our region, with its manufacturing capabilities, would be to build the towers, blades, electrical and mechanical components here. Sarah Taylor’s idea “Windustrious” noted in this week’s 11.08-11.15.06 CoolCleveland offers a 30 second advertisement for the possibility.   Being the first to build a freshwater wind farm would send a strong message of support for sustainability from a city whose claim to fame has been a burning river.

It is good news that the city is beginning to talk about net metering and smart metering and interconnection. I do hope also that water conservation by individuals and businesses will become a topic of conversation as well when the stormwater plans are being produced before the December 2007 deadline. For example, could we get credits from NEORSD for disconnecting downspouts, using rain barrels, rain gardens, permeable pavers and cisterns just as we in the suburbs sign on for the “summer sprinkling ” program to preserve the lovely expanse of green lawn whose care ultimately clogs our waterways?

PS. I didn’t know just where to place this comment since it covers a couple of topics. Since I see our ecosystem and its challenges as interconnected, I sometimes have trouble choosing in which part of the energy, air, water or land cycle of GCBL to place these comments. Feel free to find a better place if this one is not right.

Looking for a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions? Heat your home with wood. One of the best bio-mass renewable energy sources is wood. Heating your home with your fireplace or wood burning stove is “Green Friendly”. When we burn fossil fuels like oil, gas or coal we are emitting carbon that has been buried for thousands of years into the atmosphere. By increasing the carbon released we create an atmospheric concentration of carbon monoxide, thus the greenhouse effect.

Yes burning wood releases carbon into the atmosphere but so does the decaying when it is left to rot on the forest floor. Carbon makes up half the weight or wood. Wither the wood is burned or decays this carbon is still released into the atmosphere and is part of the natural cycle. As trees grow and mature they absorb the carbon in the air and use it to build into their carbon structure. Continue Article

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As I drove back from downtown this afternoon I found myself stopped in traffic and gazing directly at a cell tower. I thought, what is all the fuss about beautiful wind turbines? These cell towers are hideous. Nobody asked me if I wanted them in my sight, and they seemed to go up far and wide with nary a word of aesthetic discussion. No one objects because they are on their phone checking baseball stats. I'd rather have been looking at a wind turbine with all its beautiful movement. Where does this NIMBY movement around wind towers come from, or is it just fabricated by energy providers who are loathe to make the change to renewables? It reminds me of TV antennae in our neighborhood when I was a child – “Look those people have TV”, we would say. If we had wind turbines in Northeast Ohio, people might say, “Look those people have intelligence.”