Generate Power For Your Wired Home With Wind Turbines
What's better than a wired home bedecked with all the gadgets known to mankind? A wired and automated home that partially runs on renewable energy, that's what! What's the use of all that machinery if your home consumes more power than a small casino?
It's a good thing there are companies that cater to the needs of environment-conscious homeowners. Take, Sunforce, for example. It has an entire line of products geared towards giving homes alternative sources of power or ways to contribute to the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I live in a windy coastal village, which is why I'm considering the installation of a wind turbine to generate a bit more juice for my growing home. With four computers and a host of other gadgets, the house isn't exactly a model for energy efficiency. It can use a little more power-green energy, if it can be helped.
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Enter the Sunforce Air X line of wind generators. These babies are probably the ticket to a better future not only for my home and family but the entire planet as well.
I'm eying the Sunforce 44444 Air X 400-watt Wind Generator. It's lightweight, portable and quiet, if the Sunforce product manual is to be believed.
Regardless of the three qualities I've listed above, the Sunforce 44444 Air X 400-watt Wind Generator has other features that I admire:
- It can charge 12-volt batteries that, in turn, can power some appliances and other electronics.
- The carbon fiber composite blades ensure barely noticeable wind noise.
- It is light weight, thanks to its cast aluminum body.
- The Sunforce Air X can easily be installed. Of course it's preferable in windy locations.
- It has a regulator that automatically shuts down the turbine when batteries are fully charged.
- The turbine is virtually maintenance-free because it only has two moving parts.
- Of course, it is completely weatherproof to help it against wear and tear.
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Check out Sunforce's other wind generators under the Air X line. If you're more interested in solar panels, Sunforce also carries battery maintainers, trickle chargers and backup power units.
October 22nd, 2010 at 4:29 am
Where does my electricity come from when there is no wind?
This system uses batteries to store excess energy when you are producing more than you are using, the capacity of the batteries is determined by wind turbine size and your requirements
October 22nd, 2010 at 4:32 am
How is the electricity generated?
The principal is that if you pass soft iron through a magnetic field then this generates an electrical impulse and energy. This happens 12 times for each time the blade rotates there by creating electricity. The amount produced is proportional to the wind speed and speed of the turbine blades.