There are many reasons to use <windmill electricity. Here is a list to consider. Some of these reasons are going to make a lot of sense to you while others will not. We all have our own interests and priorities. And some of us would just rather use solar power, but that is for another article.

1.  You can get off the grid. We just went through a time a pretty high energy costs recently. Electricity and gas has gotten more affordable in resent months, but it does not mean these high energy bills are over. The price of energy could double at any moment for any reason. Would not be nice to be free of your electric and gas company when it does. In some areas you can actually sell any excess windmill electricity you produce to the grid. 

2.  You will do your part to lower the burning of fossil fuels. Enough is said about this subject, so I will not add to it. At this point you probably already have an opinion about the earth and your part in it. No matter what your opinion is, there is an abundance of wind to go around.

3.  Windmill electricity is just really neat. Just think about how a windmill or a wind turbine works. The wind blows which turns the windmill blades. The power of the wind is converted into power that you can use to wash your clothes or cook your dinner. 

Windmill electricity tends to be an expensive option to out energy needs as the equipment can be very pricy. As there popularity grows windmills will get more affordable. If you are interested in windmill power you should consider learning how to make your own less expensively than the pre-made ones.

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OK, this is a house not the Enterprise, but it still might be the wave of the future.

Have you been wondering where to use windmill power? There are houses that make windmills an important part of the house’s structure. These are called Packaged Earthships and they are very economical, because the owner can build a lot of it themselves instead of hiring contractors, and they are living completely off the grid. Also the main building materials, old tires and dirt can be obtained very inexpensively or sometimes even free.

Earthship  is versatile.

The Earthship is the brainchild of Michael Reynolds, who started building them in Taos, New Mexico in the 1970s. Today these innovative houses are being used in such places as India, France, Mexico, Belgium, Nicaragua, England Japan, Scotland, Honduras, Bolivia, Hawaii, and Nebraska.

What exactly is an Earthship?

The basic idea of the Earthship Biotecture is to use old tires filled with dirt to build the outer walls. Old cans and bottles are used to build the interior walls. One wall should be mostly windows to take advantage of the sun. All the walls, except the window wall and the walls made of bottles would be hidden by plaster to create an adobe look. The houses are even partially built into the ground. The building materials used and the natural insulation from being built into the earth make the most of the day’s heat to create a very temperate home of around 70 degrees all year without heating and cooling costs. These self sufficient homes also have their own sewage treatment and have a rain water collection system as well as using solar panels and a photovoltaic / wind power system to generate electricity.

Find out how you can build yourown by getting Earthship

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