Between solar and wind power, it is actually easy to do. Believe it or not, you can actually make a wind generator on your own. Why should you make your own wind generator? You can reap the massive benefits it has, like:- Potential to cut your power costs. You can save money each month by using a wind generator that YOU built!- Affordable. You can get the supplies to build one of these things at your local hardware store.- It’s something fun that you can do with someone, such as your kids, husband/wife, friends, or other family. These projects include projects as diverse as willow coppicing and gasifying the wood chip produced, using power plants built mostly on farms, to community anaerobic digesters processing the food and organic waste of a community feeding electric power into the local power grid and hot water via CHP schemes into their homes for low cost heating. Wind power is an example of a power type which can take jobs and revenue to remote communities which have otherwise been declining.In fact, the generator will be hooked up to the utility grid and you can actually sell power to the utility if you produce more than you need. Now, the word turbine can be a bit intimidating. When I think of a turbine, I picture something large and loud. In the case of small wind, this is not the case. Solar panels were cheap to produce, and unless you had a lot of panels exposed to a lot of sunlight, solar power systems didn’t produce very much power. We are now seeing more advancement in solar power technology, we are witnessing a resurgence in solar power systems. Though solar panels still absorb solar energy when it’s cloudy outside, it produces more energy when they’re exposed to direct sunlight. Solar power systems are therefore much more effective in places where there is a lot of direct sunlight. Source: GE Wind Turbines