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If you are keen to reduce your carbon footprint and reduce your energy bills at the same time, using a wind generator to power your home could be just the solution you are looking for.  Renewable energy options are rapidly becoming the choice of many home owners these days, particularly in the face of ever increasing electricity bills. And as fossil fuels become scarcer in the forthcoming years, prices of traditional energy sources are only going to go in one direction!

Up and till very recently, the costs of installing wind powered generators has been extremely costly, with small turbines designed for home power needs costing anywhere between $2,000 and $10,000.  Obviously these kinds of prices just have not made good economic sense.

But now there is a real alternative that is considerably cheaper, the opportunity to construct your own diy wind generator .  For just a few bucks you can now buy very detailed, easy to follow manuals that show you literally step by step, how to build a windmill.

The best DIY guide on the web without a shadow of a doubt, is the best selling Earth4Energy.Earth4Energy is actually in the form of video tutorials and not a traditional manual.  The videos are very easy to follow, and are extremely comprehensive, covering the whole process, including how and where to buy or beg your components from cheaply, through to the actual generator build and installation.

If you follow the instructions in the videos, you realistically should be able to construct a reasonable sized home wind turbine for around the $250 mark.  You’ll soon recoup your investment costs when the electricity bills stop dropping in your mailbox!  Of course there will be some additional costs.  You will need to employ a qualified electrician to install your new generator in to your home’s network, and it is also advisable to buy or assemble a battery pack to store excess charge for times when your prevailing winds are too light to drive the generator.

All in all though, the Earth4Energy product is excellent and very reasonably priced!