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Homemade Wind Power can Save You Money!

By on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 | No Comments
Back Yard Windmill Generator
Back Yard Windmill Generator

An easy homemade wind power system can easily save you lots of money on your electric bill for only a small investment.  If you live in an area with fairly dependable wind, you can add homemade wind power in your yard, and let the constantly renewing wind provide much of the electricity you need to run your home.  And with a little extra investment and work, you may even wind up actually selling power BACK to the electric company to reduce your electric bill even further, and you may even wind up with them PAYING YOU!

Homemade Wind Power systems are very straightforward to buy or build.

The first step is to check with your local and national governments and power authorities to see if there are any tax incentives or rebates that will help offset the cost to install the system, whether you plan to build or buy.  Then analyze your utility bills to see how much you can expect to save with the energy that you will produce.  When you add the savings on your utility bills with your possible tax incentives or rebates, you may wind up really wondering why you didn’t do this, and start saving money, long ago.

Next, you’ll want to find a clear space that gets a good constant wind flow for the windmill tower.  A good wind generator has blades that are about 8’ – 10’ in diameter so they need a fair amount of space in which to spin freely.  And, the top of the windmill will turn so that the blades are always facing the wind for the most efficient operation.

Today, there are many good programs available to take you step by step through Do it Yourself addition of wind power to your home. Here is one of the best. I especially like this one as it shows you many alternative and money saving sources for the materials you need.

Home Made Wind Energy

And, of course, you can always use a commercially installed system.  Either way, you will save money and help conserve our earth’s natural resources.

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Time to Reprogram Your Thermostat?

By on Friday, October 16th, 2009 | No Comments
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Just turned on the heat for the winter – at least downstairs.  Haven’t turned it on upstairs yet.

With our oldest daughter now living away from home, and our youngest now in college, it changed the schedule of when we need heating, so I took the opportunity to reprogram the thermostat.  Because of the new schedule, I was able to cut out about 15 hours of heating, and I reduced some of the temperatures.  Save money – save energy … this is good.

Always look for opportunities to save energy and money as your life changes:

  • Doing less laundry? Always was full loads and do it less often rather than reducing the water level.  It’s more efficient that way.
  • When you cook, cook for leftovers so you use the stove less.  For instance, grill up extra pieces of chicken, then use the extras on salads later in the week.
  • Maybe you only need one car now, so consider getting rid of one – LOTS of savings there!
  • You probably don’t need to use as many lights as your children move out of the house – less lighting saves money and energy.
  • If you don’t watch several televisions every day, unplug the unused ones to save the “phantom power” drain.  You can plug them back in when needed.
  • Clock radio in your childs empty room?  Unplug it until they come home for vacations and holidays.
  • Possibly turn off the heat in your childs room, also until they come home for vacations and holidays.
  • Possibly you now use fewer dishes.  Use your dishwasher every other day rather than every day.  Always wash full loads.

The important thing is always think about energy use. You will save a great deal of energy, lower your utility bills, and reduce the resources needed to create that energy.  Even if you create electricity with your own wind and solar systems, if you use less doing day to day tasks, you will have more for other things.

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Save Energy and Money – Do Laundry in Cold Water

By on Friday, September 4th, 2009 | No Comments
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Don’t know how many of you use cold water for your laundry… but you should.  Most laundry detergents today work just fine in cold water, and you will save energy – therfore money – by not having to heat the water for your wash.  For a family, this can really add up – and not heating the laundry water can really reduce your energy bills.  By all means switch over.  We did so long ago (maybe 20+ years), and I couldn’t even begin to tell you how much money we are saving this way – but I know it helps!

As you combine these savings with compact fluorescent or L.E.D. bulbs  your energy savings – and the savings on your energy bills – will continue to grow.  (I have been changing over to CFL bulbs for years, and we now have more than 30 CFLs in our house.  I’ll continue to change them over until almost all of them are converted.  Because of the slow “coming up to full brilliance” of CFL bulbs, especially as they get older, you may find it desireable to leave a few bulbs as regular incandescent, but get as many over to CFL as you can.  You’ll save energy for the planet, and save on your utility bills.

And if you are thinkng about how to add solar and wind power to your home, here is a great book.  I especially like this one because Michael shows you great sources for solar panels, generators, batteries, etc. and many of them are at very low or even NO cost – cool!

In case you think I am a tree hugger who believes the hard core greenies who say New York will be under water shortly, I’m not.  I advocate the most efficient use of the world’s natural resources.  Consult the preamble to the U.S. constitution where is says, ” … for ourselves and our posterity,” (emphasis mine).  We owe it to our children and their children to leave the world, hopefully, better than we found it.  This means using the most efficient transportation that is practical, and using as little energy as possible.  If each of us does as much as possible, it all adds up.  Don’t let our governments regulate us to this – they’ll ruin it and our lives in the process – let’s do it ourselves!

For more energy saving tips – over 110 of them – take a look at Easy-Energy-Saving-Home.com.

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Always Think About Saving Energy

By on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
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The important thing is always think about energy use. You will save a great deal of energy, lower your utility bills, and reduce the resources needed to create that energy.  Even if you create electricity with your own wind and solar systems, if you use less doing day to day tasks, you will have more for other things.

For instance, dishwashers use a great deal of energy during the drying cycle.  Avoid the dry cycle and you save energy — and money.  The easiest way is to take advantage of the “Air-Dry” feature on newer dishwashers.  This will automatically end the cycle after the last rinse and pop open the door to let the dishes dry naturally.  If you have an older dishwasher without the air-dry feature, just open the door after the last rinse to stop the cycle and let the dishes dry.  This works best when you only have one load to do (which you should do in the late evening), but careful planning may let you do one load during the day, air dry it, then another load in the evening, and then air dry that load also.

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