One of the easiest ways to generate your own electricity is by harnessing wind power. Wind energy is a great source for powering up small home appliances and does not require one to be a rocket scientist to harness it. The only thing you need is to have your own wind turbine, create your windmill, and voila you’re on your way to seriously reducing your dependence on electricity companies.

Yep, all you need to do is add air.

Most people are intimidated when technical stuff are mentioned alongside building something. So when terms such as wind turbines or homemade wind turbines appear in a sentence, most folks are intimidated and run away as fast as they can. Nobody wants those kinds of complications right? Well that’s the thing, a lot of people in this world would want freedom or cure from whatever it is that’s bothering but few would want to put in the effort.

If you find yourself nodding to the previous sentence then congratulations, you’re actually one of those folks who know that without any effort nothing gets done and nothing gets resolved.

Going back to wind turbines, you really don’t need to recreate the wheel here. If you want your own homemade wind turbine to power some of your appliances at home, there are a lot of guides out there that can help you achieve this. Of course I’m gonna be mentioning those guides here. As to the wind turbines itself, the guides that I’m recommending here will actually take you on a step-by-step process that involves procuring the materials that you need for your homemade wind turbines, up to the actual creation of your own windmill. It’s really that simple. But again, the wind turbines are not gonna build themselves, the complete wind turbine guides are not gonna read themselves. All these things, the success of your homemade wind turbine project will depend on you. Every successful project in life requires effort. So if you want to succeed in your homemade wind turbine project, you have to put in the time.

Here are a couple of do-it-yourself homemade wind turbine guides that a lot of people have found useful. These are electronic book guides or e-books that will set you back for a couple of dollars. Of course if you’re old school and you want to have a paperback, I’ve included some bestselling DIY wind turbine project books from Amazon as well so you can just choose your pick.

It’s getting old but I’m gonna write it again anyway. Without effort, nothing comes to fruition. If you want this for yourself, if you want to reduce your electricity bills by harnessing the power of wind energy via a homemade wind turbine project, you need to knuckle down and take action. Your success will be determined by how much effort you put in.

Homemade wind turbine resources:

E-books on building your own homemade wind turbine.

Wind Power

Green Energy Blueprint

Free Energy Options

Energy2Green

Books from Amazon that teaches you how to build your own homemade wind turbine:

If there are capitalists out there or would-be capitalists, here’s a Philippine invention that would be worth millions if not gazillions if developed and marketed properly.

The great thing about this invention is that it is already tested and proven and actually being put to use here in the Philippines. Unfortunately or even stupidly it’s not picking up steam. I will put to rest any discourse on the why this thing is not taking off. It only means that a forward looking capitalist should be making a killing developing this already proven to work invention.

The inventor in question is Steve Rejuso and his invention, a tubig-powered machine. Tubig in english is water thus making his invention the water-powered machine. While there are a lot of sci-fi talks about water-powered cars or any of that water based energy fiction being bandied around, Mr Rejuso has already applied his invention to practical use like the water-powered street lights, and even a water powered radio.

Here is a video of Mr Rejuso’s invention.

The video is in Filipino but just looking at the video you should be able to get the gist of it. In the video Mr Rejuso said their discovery was pure serendipity. His kid peed on some of their scraps lying around their house and his wife noticed that their tester was going off, he decided to do some experiments and voila, here it is.

Imagine expanding this application to power airconditioners or heaters or as a generator. If it only takes a whisk of water to power a light bulb for two weeks. Imagine what a bigger machine can do when powered by a barrel of water. Applying the same principle, imagine what other things can be powered by his invention? Ships that can sail forever? Cars?

There will be no need to pay for energy bills. Zero electricity is not out of the question. Oil consumption would plummet. If only somebody would just pick this one up quick.

If you’re wondering about electricity comparison across US states and how each state stack up against each other in terms of residential electricity rates, maybe this will help.  Below is a quarterly electricity rate comparison per 1000Kwh usage based on a survey done by JEA.

“This survey is a cross section of utilities throughout United States including Alaska. This comparison is for residential customers and includes base rates, fuel adjustment charges, and applicable franchise fees per 1,000 kWh.” JEA Website

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With the electricity rates skyrocketing, it is important to be mindful of our electricity usage at home. We have to explore all avenues where we can save electricity costs. With that in mind, here are a few practical electricity saving tips that we could easily implement in our households.

Turn Off Your Appliances Completely When Not In Use

Always remove plugs from electric sockets. Don’t leave those appliances plugged in even if they’re not being used.

In this age of remote controls and other switch unfriendly devices. We just take it for granted that we have already switched off our appliances (TVs, Airdonditioners) using the remote. The truth is, these appliances are still using up electricity and wastes a considerable amount of energy. By switching off at the main power button, or even the socket, we could be save a lot of money and electricity.
Those appliances left left on standby actually use up to 85% of the energy they would use if fully switched on.

Minimize Using Your Tumble Dryer

Do you know that electric tumble dryers are commonly the second biggest energy user in the home, after the refrigerator? Gives you pause doesn’t it? Although they’re not used that much, they still consume a whole lot of energy when switched on.

So if you have a backyard, it makes a lot of sense to be drying your clothes outside whenever possible instead of using your tumble dryer.

If you must use your dryer, e.g. during bad weather, make sure that your clothes go through your washing machine’s fast spinner so they’re as dry as possible. This will significantly lessen the time needed to dry them and therefore saves electricity.

Optimize Your Household Lighting

A major portion of the electricity bill in a lot of households come from lighting. This is one area where we could save some electricity. The first thing to do is to replace those traditional bulbs with energy saving light bulbs. These energy saving light bulbs work in the same way as fluorescent lights which are proven to be energy efficient.

These energy saving light bulbs differ from the traditional light bulbs in the sense that while traditional light bulbs turn energy into heat thereby expending a lot of energy, energy efficient light bulbs have tube coatings that blog brightly as electric currents pass through gas in the tube.

True, energy saving light bulbs cost more than traditional light bulbs but all that cost is easily recovered by the amount of electricity they save. These types of bulbs last 10 times longer than traditional bulbs and use up 4 times less energy.

But more importantly whenever you leave a room, always turn off the light. This is a good thing to make a habit.

Use Solar Powered Garden Lights

One movement that’s really building momentum is the use of solar energy for your home. You don’t need to be a science geek to implement some solar projects on your own. You could start with using solar lights in your garden for example. Solar lights are readily available in most hardware stores these days. These type of lights do not require special electric fittings. They contain solar cells which convert the sun’s energy into electricity. They story energy during the day, and use the stored energy to lighten up your garden during night time.

Larry Hagman, the oil tycoon in the popular TV show Dallas, is now one of the proponents of solar energy.  Appearing in a commercial for SolarAds, Larry Hagman is indeed one of the poster boys for solar energy.  And looks like he’s not just one for show.  His estate is now solar powered.

JR (Larry Hagman) Goes Green – CNBC – Nov ’07

Hagman – changing the way he generates energy with SOLAR; an example for everyone – - and began a strong campaign since 2007 at: www.refundsforgood.org As of March 2010, Larry is now SELLING the estate www.youtube.com

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Reducing electricity bills is one of the things that we need to look at if we want to save some money.  Times are hard and we want to be able to cut our expenses as much as possible.  These tips on how to reduce your electricity bills would go a long way for everyone who wants to save money.

Ways To Reduce Your Electricity Bills

10 Ways To Chop Your Electric Bill | Home Improvement

This helps reduce heating bills by 20% and cooling by at least ten percent. Even when building a home or decorating it use weather friendly materials—those who don’t seem to be smart conductors of heat and cold. …

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Swapping incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescent ones can cut a home electric bill, Kweller says. Switching one incandescent for a CFL saves $35 in energy costs over the projected 10-year life of the bulb. …

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Cut Your Gas And Electricity Bills

Changing your supplier is a good way to get cheaper gas and electricity bills. There are many different companies competing for your business, and it’s worth looking around for a good offer.

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We all look for ways to reduce our electricity bills.  We go for energy efficient appliances, buy contraptions that claim to ‘reduce electric consumption’.  But really, the best, and most direct way to reduce our electricity bills is to generate our own electricity.

One project that you can get started right away is to build your own solar panels.  Solar panel is an invention that has been tried and tested for years now.  Many homes have turned to building their own solar panels to reduce if not eliminate electricity bills but also to help create a greener earth.

What Are Solar Panels?

Solar panels (or photovoltaic modules) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells. This panel is used in a larger photovoltaic system to offer electricity for commercial and residential applications. A single solar panel by itself can only produce a limited amount of power, however, by installing several modules or panels known as a photovoltaic array, one should be able to store enough energy to power your own home. – referenced from wikipedia.

By the looks of it, building your own solar panel can be quite daunting. But it need not be. With the right guide, and a few helpful videos, you should be able to build your own solar panels for your own residence. See this news video showing how solar panels were used to effectively supply energy for a house.

One affordable product that is worth checking out when you’re ready to build your solar panel is GreenDIYEnergy. This is a very good guide to help you build your own solar panel as it breaks down the process of building into easy step by step instructions. You don’t need to be a handyman to be able to do this. Here’s one video showing how a solar panel is built based on the GreenDIYEnergy guide.

Who says that having your own residential solar panel has to be expensive? By using the GreenDIYEnergy guide, you can actually build your own solar panel for less than $200.

Can You Really Generate Your Own Electricity?

Absolutely.  You only need to see this video from national geographic to see that it is possible.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.  These days, there are options.  Believe it or not, you can generate your own energy, and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to do it too.  There are a lot of products in the market today that will actually to teach you how.  These products will teach you step by step in a very simple manner to steadily loosen the power company’s grip over you.

Benefits of Generating Your Own Electricity

Aside from saving a lot of money by cutting down your electricity bills, generating your own electricity actually makes you a direct contributor in making this world a better place to live in.  You’ve seen the things that are happening to the world today, you see unusual weather conditions, heat waves, tidal waves, earthquakes.  The fact is, these are our environment’s cry for help!  And although you may not be able to make a huge impact towards healing the environment, you can rest assured that by embarking on an alternative energy project right in your own home, you become part of the solution.