Wind power and solar power, through the use of a battery bank, reduces your electricity bills, saves the planet, and is a superior supply of energy during power outages.

If you are thinking about making a home wind power turbine then here are a few things you should consider first.

Farmhouses and houses that are spread over an acre achieve the greatest cost savings from a wind power turbine. Less homes and buildings are present to block the flow of wind.

Take a moment to think about the amount of wind in your area. If you do not have much wind flow, then a wind power generator will save you little. Ideally, you want to live in an area that has an average wind speed of 11 miles per hour.

One of the best things about solar and wind power generation at home is that you are no longer at the mercy of power companies and their power outages that routinely effect us all. By producing your own electricity, black outs are a thing of the past. Plus there is nothing like seeing the look on your neighbors faces when they are standing outside because their power is out and they see your power on.

A typical wind power system comprises of a tower and five blades to churn out wind energy. The length of the wind tower varies depending on the location of your house. You may need a longer tower if you are in low-wind zone; you can work with a shorter tower if you live by the beach. Using a wind generator, this wind energy can be converted into useful electrical energy to be employed at home for running various electrical appliances. You can even store the power generated for later use, making wind generators more efficient than convention power systems.

If you are confused with the wind power terminology, this bit of information will help you. The terms, wind power generator, wind mills, wind turbines, and wind generators are all used to refer to the same machine.

If you are ready to take the next step in lowering your monthly power costs then you must see Lance Jensen’s awesome free blueprint for making a homemade wind generator. Go to home wind power

An ordinary citizen, albeit brilliant, has solved the energy crisis and our dependency on oil. He has created a 6 kwh solar system one can make at home for under $5,500. If a 6 kwh system was build with PV panels, it would cost about $80,000 to install.

What really gets my goat is that the powers that be in the United States want us all to think that after 15 years, and hundreds of millions of dollars in “government grants” to big oil companies to develop alternative energy projects, they could not come up with a system with this much yield for so cheap. Whatever! Chevron, Exxon, and the U.S. Department of Energy are not interested in these kinds of DIY homemade solar systems because they can’t make money off it. Big oil wants an alternative solution that keeps you as a paying customer while the U.S. government wants to be able to tax the solution. If everyone could pull as much energy as they needed completely from the air, the government could not get tax revenues with such a system, unless they taxed sunlight. Both big oil and the U.S. government only want an alternative energy solution that enriches them.

The billionaire oil executives in America will not let a DIY homemade solution hit mainstream America. They do not want you empowered and able to produce your own electricity simply by pulling it from free light.

The truth gets much darker than this. The oil trade is killing average people in Nigeria, Burma, and other countries. Nigeria and Burma are just two countries in which big oil has brought great harm and death to average people. Big oil is telling the Nigerian government where they want their luxury houses to be built. The government is sending in bulldozers to remove entire neighborhoods of poor people. They are even destroying churches. You can find videos of what is happening in Nigeria courtesy of YouTube.

Nigeria is only a portion of the cruelty to people in the name of profits for big oil. The U.N. Security Council has condemned the Burmese military junta for its treatment of its people. All companies have left the region except for Chevron. While the pipe line was being built, supervised by oil executives, the Burmese military junta forced villagers along the pipeline into slavery. Here are a Burmese citizens own words, “When there was no pipeline, there were no problems with soldiers. No soldiers came to this area. The soldiers came when we were harvesting rice. After the pipeline reached our village, we were told we had to work for the white people at gun point. We were forced by the soldiers into slavery. If we said we had to plant rice and would not do work for the white people, they said they would kill us and all our children. Because of the white people, our home was destroyed and the men had to run into the jungle or be killed. Many were killed. My husband escaped into the jungle. I waited for him to come back. While I was waiting, a soldier walked up to me and hit me with his rifle. I hit my head on a stone when I fell and lost consciousness. When I awoke, my baby had been burned alive in a fire. She did not cry. Her body was burned and all black.”

Now keep in mind that an average, ordinary American, albeit very intelligent, created an affordable DIY solar power system. The U.S. Department of Energy has been giving big oil companies like Chevron millions of dollars each year of tax payers money to create an alternative energy solution to break us from our dependency on oil. It sounds like big oil has been running a tax payers scam using the U.S. Department of Energy as the vehicle. During the Bush Administration and Republican control, the Department of Energy was staffed with pro big oil corporate executives and lobbyists. They have come up with very little and yet here is an ordinary citizen without any kind of multi-million dollar tax payer funded research budget, and he has created an affordable solar energy solution.

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Written by Lance Jensen. For free plans to build your own solar power system and other ways you can stick it to the big oil companies go to diy homemade solar panels

Solar energy from the sun is the most abundant source of energy on the planet. The sun provides heat, light, and life to every human on Earth. We can now use our sun to make solar power for everyday use.

Why is solar power better than other forms of energy production?

The solar energy solution is gaining popularity amongst the alternate energy solutions.

Solar power is a green energy. When you examine the solar energy solution, you will discover that it uses no fuel other than the suns light. Also, it will not release anything bad into earth’s atmosphere.

Cheaper solution: First, the energy comes free. Then, the installation cost is a one-time cost. Finally, if you make your solar power system at home and install it yourself, the investment is recovered within a few months of installation (longer depending on how big your solar power system is), making the power generated by solar energy free.

You can store solar power: The big power corporations do not allow you to store the power they send to your home but you can store your own power with solar. Even in the dark or during a complete black out in your area, your power will stay on because you stored your power during the day in what is called a battery bank.

Lower maintenance costs. Solar power systems are very easy to maintain. A solar power system involves minimal effort to maintain letting you relax and enjoy your solar power.

We can start using solar power right now in the following ways:

Solar oven cooking system: You can now cook without using any electricity or gas! You can cook absolutely free! A solar oven will let you bake, boil, or roast! The only slight disadvantage to a solar oven is that it takes a while to heat up. But you will feel great knowing that you cooked your meal without having to pay the big energy corporations a penny!

Solar lighting system: You can now light up the entire house and use every electrical appliance without even thinking about having to turn anything off. The solar power system powers everything in your house even at night, thanks to the battery bank.

Solar heating system: You can make your home nice and warm with a solar heating system without worrying about your energy bill.

The U.S. consumer buys a lot of oil from Nigeria. How much? Over 500,000 barrels per day. Nigeria is the 6th largest supplier of oil to the U.S.

Oil companies in the U.S. promised that the flow of money into Nigeria was going to make life a lot better for the people.

U.S. oil companies could careless about the Nigerian people. They did not care about the welfare of the Nigerian people anymore than U.S. Insurance companies care about the welfare of their members. All that the U.S. oil companies wanted to do was to take the oil as quickly as possible. What most U.S. citizens do not know is that their consumption of oil and gas is killing the average Nigerian.

Worse, big oil executives have known what is happening to Nigeria because of the oil trade for years now, but still they continue to use their Washington lobbyists to delay solar power development.

The video below shows how the oil trade has benefited oil companies and politicians in the U.S. and Nigeria while killing ordinary Nigerians.

[youtube:nNRyOMrJE-w;[link:Why We Need Solar Power Now];http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRyOMrJE-w&feature=related] Nigerians are killing each other for who should have the right to sell oil to America.

Average peoples homes are demolished in order to create luxury housing for foreign oil workers and oil executives.

A pastor who has had his church demolished in the name of the oil trade laments, “The oil boom has turned into the oil doom.”

A terrified woman who has had her home destroyed in the name of oil grabs her children and cries, “I need help!”

The Rush Limbaugh Republicans who believe “all business is good, in fact it’s downright heavenly” need to educate themselves on the oil trade.

Business has one purpose and one purpose alone, to maximize profits at any cost. In some regards, the national health care debate in the United States is another example of business going after maximum profits at any cost. How many people have the rich Health Insurance companies in America killed because they denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition? How many young people who work in the fast food and restaurant industry in America are not being provided with health care by these greedy insurance companies? How many hard working families, where both couples work, are being charged $700, $900 and even a $1,000 a month or more for health insurance?

Welcome to Corporate America after 8 years of Republicanism. Quanta, in their debut album, said it best: This is America Corporate America The place where only the rich count This is America Yeah America Why do they get to be paramount?

If you want to solar power your home for really cheap, you must learn a little about solar panels.

The first thing you are probably wondering is if it is possible to buy just one solar panel to power your entire home. This is one of the most common questions asked by people looking into installing their own solar power system. You might even have a list of things in your home that you would like to put on this single solar panel such as an air conditioner, dishwasher, TV, and so on.

I’m sorry to tell you that the answer is no. It is impossible for a single solar panel to power an entire house. I’ve lived off the power grid for 15 years and solar panels have come a long way. Even with the latest technology and most expensive solar panels on the market, you would need about 15 solar panels and a dozen or so deep cycle batteries. If you live in the desert or any environment where you really need to run your air conditioning a lot, then you will need even more. Your air conditioner is the most power hungry “appliance” in your home.

What you need to learn is that nothing in your home can be run off of a solar panel. Things in your home are run off a battery bank. The solar panels job is only to keep your battery bank charged. You might think this is just clever semantics but it is not. Voltage spikes are very bad and can fry computer chips in all sorts of appliances. This is why power strips have voltage spike protection in them. If you plugged things in your home directly into a solar panel, every little cloud or bird that crosses between your solar panel and the sun would send a massive voltage spike to whatever you are running off it causing it to fry. You must have a steady flow of electrons coming into your home to power things. This is precisely what a battery bank does for you.

Consider using solar panels to power the things in your home excluding the air conditioner at first. Instead, consider switching your air conditioner over to gas.

If you are gone at work during the day, shut off your air conditioner so that during the day, your power meter is running backwards while very few things in your home are using energy from your battery bank. When you get home in the evening, turn your AC on and you will then be using energy from your power company.

You should be able to cut your bill by 75% or more doing this as long as you don’t live in too hot a climate and thus don’t have to run your AC that much at night.