Domestic Wind Turbines For Your Home: 3 Important Advances

Domestic wind turbines for your home can drastically transform your energy budget if you will let them. You need to consider them seriously because there have been a lot of advances in the technology that will make them a lot more acceptable than they have been in past years. In the past, these devices have been seen as an albatross and in some areas have been banned from being installed. Older versions of this technology are relatively unattractive and many communities did actually ban them altogether.

If some brilliant engineer comes up with a way to take hydrogen molecules and efficiently turn them into electricity then all this will be for naught and not a totally productive way of thinking. I think though that even if you install a wind turbine now and something better comes along it's hard to ignore free power going forward and that's exactly what you will have if you install one on your property. Once you pay for the device there is no further cost except for minor maintenance items.

However, these are the 3 important advances in the way they look and work that is changing that perception...

Much better looking devices - There's more more of these wind turbine devices are being placed in urban settings, there have been drastic improvements in the aesthetic qualities of these devices. In the past there was really no choice but to get a horizontal axis wind turbine that looked like the kind that you would mount in any utility wind farm. Now there are devices that are a lot less noticeable and can be placed up next to your chimney so that people hardly even notice them. If they do notice them it is usually in a positive rather than a negative light.

Much better able to take advantage of low wind velocities - There are so many devices out there now that cannot start making energy until the wind reaches about 6 mph. That is a significant negative for the industry because that means that a lot more of the market out there would be able to take advantage of this technology if the wind speeds were lower at which power creation could begin.

Vertical home wind turbines can be mounted on the roof - This is a huge advantage in that there is so much residential real estate available on roofs that is not taken advantage of right now. This is the great hope for renewable energy projects worldwide. There are so many roofs that could be terrific locations for power generation now.

In summary, domestic wind turbines can make a big difference in the amount you pay for energy every month at your home and these improvements are making it more likely people will actually take advantage of them.

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