Apart from being a clean source of energy, wind power generators are getting much cheaper and cost-effective.

Buying commercially made turbines can be expensive because of research and development and material costs, but you can make your own homemade generator with simple parts and simple tools, for under $100. The most expensive part you'll need is a DC motor that will run you about $30-$40 at your local hardware store.

The job can also be done in less than a week!

How much energy can they create?

There are manuals that you can download right now that show you how to create a turbine for about $100 that can produce about 700-1000W of energy on average (enough to reduce the electricity bill in an average household by about 70% with 1 wind turbine).

But the exact amount of electricity produced depends mainly on two factors:

-Wind speed in your area

-Wind turbine blade size

If you live high up on a windy mountain chances are your turbine is going to be very effective, even with small blades. The bigger the blades, the more energy a turbine can take out of the air. It is just harder to make because the blades need to be balanced or the turbine may break when spinning quickly.

Building your own wind turbine is actually very simple.

You just need the correct manual and blueprints to make it as easy as possible. Some manuals even show you great tips like these:

- to how to get $1000's in government grants for building renewable energy

- how you can get the power company to pay you for the extra energy you're making

- and even get storage batteries for free, so you can use extra energy later