With electricity cost going up and the likes of British Gas hiking up their price, everyone could use a bit of free energy. There are a number of ways to harvest renewable energy including solar and ...

Derek Markham is a green living expert who started writing for Treehugger in 2012. Getting started with home wind energy projects can set you back a pretty penny if you buy a finished product. But if ...

Do It Yourself Projects to Get You Off the Grid (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) by Instructables.com is illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow ...

[Electronoobs] is using some brushless motors to make a DIY wind turbine. His recent video isn’t about the turbine itself, but a crucial electronic part: the three-phase rectifier. The reason it is so ...

This means the system works with any old wind turbine design – and it can scale to handle more or less any size of turbine tower. You still need a crane ship, but it's a comparatively tiny one.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - If you’ve thought about investing is an alternative energy system, it turns out that you don’t have to do it yourself. The experts at Missouri Wind and Solar will not only ...

DIY eco-power systems are growing in popularity, and most of them involve building some sort of wind turbine. Fashioning your own photovoltaic solar panels is unlikely to be a feasible option, but a ...