If someone had told me a few months ago that finding the best residential wind turbines would be this hard I would have thought they were crazy. My experience in the commercial construction industry was the opposite! But let’s face it, in the commercial space, there’s lots of high end stuff available. But those generally aren’t micro wind turbines useful for homes, and if they can be adapted, they’re ridiculously expensive.
So what now? I was on a pretty tight time line. I had to be done with my search and at least close to having a residential wind power system installed by the time the house was done or we wouldn’t have enough power. The farm house was off grid and didn’t have any other power available. It seemed to me that using diesel generators was pretty much defeating the purpose of having green power, right?
And not going green was out of the question. Residential solar energy would get us part of the way but we really needed to find some good home wind turbines to really cover our power needs. And quick!
What about used? We tried looking for wind turbines for sale, and found lots of high end brand new stuff. Occasionally we’d find a used wind turbine available but most of the time they were useful for commercial purposes and just weren’t all that great for residential power solutions.
Just in time, I was talking to a local farmer at the diner and he started telling me about this wind turbine design he had, and how he ended up building his own residential wind turbines for his farm. And it worked great! He invited me out to his place to take a look, and we made an appointment for me to see it the next day. I went home and my wife was thrilled to hear about our conversation!
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