DIY green Power
The folks at hackaday have just reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for ages now...They have a link to guerilla.net rfor among other things, a grid connected solar system (it sells power back to the grid) My ideal situation is totally off-grid, however running your meter backwards is certainly cool.
Solar is a great idea - and cetainly applicable to people in Australia (where I am) however there still is a reasonable up front cost - even if you can claim a lot of the money back off the state and federal governments.
I prefer the idea of a diy windmill of which there is a lot of info online about. The best system in my opinion is based on the disk brake assembly of a car. Rare earth magnets are attached to the disk, and coulds are mouned either side of the rotating disk.
Some good resourdes include Rainbow Power Company (based in Byron Bay) who have a mailing list I subscribe to and an extensive archive, and otherpower.
I try to keep these blog posts short. If anybody is interested I have a rather extensive list of bookmarks and PDFs on the topic.
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