"I have the Power!"

“I have the POWER.”

Today I thought I would go back and cover power generation. I will start with wind power and storage , with a brief add on about solar power and ending with chicken power. This will be brief as you can find most if not all of the information online.

Harness the power of mother nature. Green energy for the health of our planet and our children, that’s what people are telling us all over the world, but for our purposes we will simplify this.

Wind power is a great way to capture freely energy that we can use in our everyday lives. Sadly the ability to use it reliably depends on mother nature.  But we will cover it today. So there are different ways of making a wind generator, you can take an electric motor and wire it so that instead of using power it provides power many times going this route can be difficult, 1. You have to have a motor that can spin easily and freely, and my opinion is that it’s too much of a pain to find the right motor. I prefer using alternators from cars, my favorite one to use is a GM single wire no load alternator. No load means that the RPMS of the Alternator does not have to be all that high to get a charge flowing from the alternator. Using a row of batteries wired in tandem will provide you with the ability to store the power  and use it as needed. When wiring the batteries you will need to make sure that you wire them to the desired voltage output. I do not know the conversion table for this, but I assume you all can just search the internet to find the right information for doing it. You will need a power inverter  and you can buy these from many different stores such as Harbor Freight, make sure you get a few extras as backups.

For your wind generator you will need to build a few towers that you can attach to your converted Alternator . It is highly advisable that you make a lever that you can use to stop the fan blades from moving this will help if you have to shut it down when you have excessive winds as well as give you the ability to make repairs.  Build an enclosure for your motor so it is not destroyed by the elements.

Solar panels are a great way to generate power and you can buy the fairly cheap at Harbor Freight, these usually come in ready to set up kits and are fairly easy to install, you will have to buy enough of them and wire them up to get the desired output you want. There are instructions in the kit that will walk you through this.

Chicken power. Here I will provide you with a link that I personally feel will be better  resource than listening to me try to explain it.  This does work as I have used this method for powering a vehicle.  heating a house as well as a generator and cooking.  You can find anything you need at the moment on the internet I suggest you take the time and search out things that I list here, you can also make bio diesel but you should know that the process is very time consuming.

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_bate.html