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There are many I found online, so which is the best for the cost and performance?…keep in mind, I am NOT made of money! Thanks!

………….I lived on my sailboat for 15 years in the Caribbean…. I always relied on my trusty windbugger to keep my batteries up when I was at anchor which was most of the time I found more and more sailors switching to the air X generator….. so If I was to buy one again for land I would go with the air X…….land model or a windbugger who also makes land models…..

EDIT
I checked on windbugger they are out of buisness….

I took a recent roadtrip and came past a small rural town in Indiana and there were rows of tall white 3 blade windmills.
What are those tall windmills used for? Are they providing energy for the resident’s homes? Are they pumping water to the vegetables,fruits,and plants? What are these windmills that are popping up on farms used for?

the windmills with lots of blades pump water.
the 3 bladed windmills produce electricity.
some of them produce 1,000 kw.

http://www.awea.org/faq/wwt_basics.html

in some areas of the country, where there is not a power plant close, the utility probably pays a premium to farmers to produce excess electricity to feed the grid in their area.
that’s much cheaper than incurring the transmission losses from far away, or building a fossil fuel plant close.

Months ago when Obama toured a solar panel manufacturing plant all of the workers were told to stay home that day. The vast majority were hispanics.

Didn’t Obama want a bunch of illegals in his green energy photo op?

Almost none. Those kind of manufacturing jobs are high paying, skilled labor jobs, the kind that Americans in unions have. There’s no need for unskilled undocumented workers.

Can you cite a source, and a factual one at that? Every photo I can find of Obama’s solar plant photo ops show him with workers. If "all" the workers stayed home, who is that he’s with?

So in basketball you have a dunk and in baseball you have a home run. So would it be easier for a person to lets say learn to do a windmill dunk or instead learn to hit a 90 mph home run?

I know they are two different sports but I would like to know how the level of difficulty differs.

personally, i think to hit a 90MPH fast ball Homerun.

reason.
to do dunk, you need a good vertical jump and practics.
but for to it a homerun, you need good strength that is able
to hit the ball out of the park, and you need a good coordination
to hit the sweet spot, otherwise the ball will pop off in a ackward
angle.

Why are liberals so opposed to alternative energy, I live in California (the land of Liberals) and have yet to see one house with a windmill on top

Why are liberals such hypocrites ?

The Kennedy’s won’t let them mess up their Public paid view at the old homestead
using those high tech mills , wake up fools

I am new to learning about generators and dont know much about DC electricity. I am experimenting with building a windmill for household power. Would machining the shaft and placing magnets in it work? I am first building one with homemade coils and earth magnets, but somebody suggested using a dc motor housing and thought i would check into it. Thanks for any input.

Hi,

First of all,a brushless DC motor needs an alternative arrangement that could cause the reversal of input direct current for developing a constant torque in armature.This may be achieved with the help of any electronic inverter connected to the input terminals of motor as the brushes in a dc motor actually act as mechanical inverter.

Now,to run a dc motor as generator:

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I need to make a wind turbine for a science project, i have everything else sorted.

I’m using a DC motor from an old remote controlled car that used a 7.2 volt battery. Is there anything i need to do to this before it can be attached to the spinning shaft of the windmill, or can i hook up the wires to a lightbulb and let the thing spin?

You might want to gear it up, using a large gear or pull on the wind blade shaft, and a small gear or pulley on the generator.

I am making a Website about Windmills in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, but I don’t know what information to put on the Home Page, I know the About Us Page has information about the company, but what information do I include on the Home Page if I put all the information about the Website on the About Us Page.

Thank you for any help.

Usually, most people reserve the "about us" page to give background on the company, how long they have been in business, other offerings that the business has, locations of the business, what the business does, etc. Its also a good place to put owner (or management) information and bio’s.

The home page should not be overloaded with that kind of info. It should be brief and to the point telling the visitor what the site is for, a quick highlight of the products, and have navigation to other parts of the site.

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am making a Website about Windmills in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, but I don’t know what information to put on the Home Page, I know the About Us Page has information about the company, but what information do I include on the Home Page if I put all the information about the Website on the About Us Page.

Thank you for any help.

Sometimes there isn’t any difference. It depends sometimes how much info you have on certain things. Usually however you have a homepage giving descriptions of what the website is about and the about page about the people involved, experience etc.
In your case about Windmills in Notts and Lincs you could put a few paragraphs of introduction about the aim of the website, then the about page could be about the people involved. There is no hard and fast rules.

how could i make an improvised electric generator for my physics project using some wires and magnets? first i wanted to make a small ferris wheel but my motor was spinning too fast and the wheel can’t cope up with the forces. so i decided to make a windmill using the wheel. thanks for those who could answer.

To make a strong enough electric generator, you have to use an old starter motor from a car. Try searching for one in a junkyard. They’re easy to find. You can make a large enough wheel and it won’t spin too fast. If it needs to be 100% custom, you can take the motor, open it up and see how it is made, then make one of your own! A car’s starting motor can make enough power to power a sound system or something like that. Maybe a computer as well. But you’ll need a DC->AC convertor for that. Try it! It will be really fascinating to see it happen!