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Home Wind And Solar Power
Adding an additional power source to your home or even replacing a traditional gas or electric system with solar panels or wind turbines is an alternative for many homeowners today.
Installing Solar or Wind power units for your home can not only help save you dollars on your heating and electric bills, but help save the planet. As more and more people use greener solutions for energy production in the household, it is creating a more sustainable ecology for the world.
One of the options that many people are looking into is building your own windmill or wind power system. The DIY or do it yourself models have been big sellers and are quite popular, as they provide the means to getting your own home wind power but also can save on the cost significantly as well.
The range of the cost varies greatly and can be anywhere from several hundred dollars to over $20,000 for a particular system, depending on your needs.
It all depends on how much energy you are using and where your home is and the environment of your area in particular. In a very urban and crowded area it will not be as effective as it would in a rural and more open environment as the city and urban areas tend to limit the amount of energy that can be created by such windmill units.
Very rarely, if ever, do these home wind turbines generate enough power to eliminate the need for gas and oil, but they can reduce your bills and also lower your carbon footprint significantly, which is important to many as well as saving money.
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Thats a hard question, i dont think that there is a straight answer for that.
I’m pretty sure as long as you have a conversion system, you can use it right away. But the problem is harvesting enough wind and developing a conversion system that doesnt eat too much of the power to convert it.
The other problem is with animal rights groups protesting wind turbines because they are harmful for flying creatures. So they protest the turbines to save the flying animals instead of letting the technology go to save the human race (and our need for a little to no impact energy means).
sorry, little rant, but still i’m pretty sure it is instantaneous as long as you have a conversion means.
Years I think.
A long time. Longer than it takes to use it up. Thats why fossil fuels are the way forward and anyone who says otherwise is a close-minded-weed-puffing-left-wing-hippy-eco-terrorist.
Energy cannot be created, it can only change form!
Depends on how quickly you can down that bean burrito.
Wind energy is quite inefficient, compared to other sustainable methods such as tidal power and solar power.
Shadow fails to realise that 1) fossil fuels will eventually be depleted and 2) the CO2 released causes long-term rise in temperature.
2 hrs 11 mins 24.8seconds
Not quite sure what you mean.
If you mean create electrical energy from some kind of turbine it takes about as close to instantly as you can get.
If you mean the raw energy of wind. That is a creation of countless factors within the atmosphere so it would depend on when you started counting, you could start from the beginning of time, if there was a beginning.
Though if your converting wind to electric you will not get the same amount of electrical energy as the wind power being inputted. Some energy will be replaced as heat and sound due to friction within the turbine.
If you are making ENERGY from wind, it is instantaneous.
Making wind from energy should also be instantaneous, depending upon how much WIND you make.
You can’t MAKE wind energy. It is a complex function of terrain and atmospheric heating caused by the suns solar energy.
Also, your syntax is not at all correct. Energy cannot be CREATED, (or destroyed) only transformed from one form to another. Some FORMS of energy are chemical (gasoline, lead-acid battery storage) kenetic (object in motion) heat (from combustion or friction) radiation (sun or thermonuclear).
We spend our whole lives dealing with the transformation of energy. We dig up the coal to burn it for heat (a form of energy) only to see it disipate into the atmosphere and we have to go get more coal.
We pump crude oil from the ground to provide energy to propel our cars forward, only to create brake pads to stop that forward motion (turning kenetic energy of the moving vehicle created from oil) and watch as the energy transformation from motion to heat bleeds away the energy to the surrounding air. Then, we go BACK to the gas pump to "get more potential energy to burn and disipate".
Personally, I think Capt. Kirk had the right idea with the teletransporter thingy. No heat generated, just atomic transmission through time and space.
I’ve been making wind energy all day.