How To Build A Windmill - Free Plans
Author: William Michaels
Like most things in life, you get what you pay for if you shop wisely. Many times, something marked as "free" may not be worth the cost, especially if the item or information is of substandard quality. Chances are, you'll spend much more repairing or adapting the "free" item before it will meet your needs.
Are the plans all-inclusive? Most times, when something is apparently given as "free," there's a catch. Maybe the information given is just enough to get a person started building a windmill a certain way, then the plans call for a "contribution" of money to get the rest of the plans. This can be done in a very sneaky way. The plans could be so vague that you never really are sure exactly sure how to even start the project. Or, critical parts of the plans are intentionally left out so you can buy the "upgraded" package - at a greater price than you'd ever pay for any other quality set of plans.
Are the plans from a reputable source? What confidence do you have that the company is knowledgeable? A reputable source - that can be a difficult thing to verify. Usually, if you ask questions of a reputable supplier before the sale, the answer you receive could convince you that the company knows what it is talking about, or not.
Does the company offer a guarantee? If there is no guarantee of satisfaction, then you're taking quite a risk - unnecessarily so. I think it can be quite telling that no guarantee is offered. If a reputable company wants my money, there better be a money-back guarantee - no questions asked.
Does the advertising include any testimonials? Word from other folks who have actually used the plans is critical. While, most people who do give testimonials may not want their email address broadcast world-wide, the advertising should at least give a realistic-sounding testimonial that doesn't give a lot of false-sounding praise.
Does the advertising make a lot of claims that are hard to believe? Do they promise to solve all of your problems for a small, one-time "fee?" Does the advertising claim that their plans will generate 100% of your electrical energy for only 0 in parts? To me, that sounds like false advertising. Better stay away from those guys.
These are just a few of the common-sense things I'd be looking for when searching for free windmill plans. Better to buy the best you can afford - you won't regret the decision.
I've looked at some of the more popular plans on how to build your own windmill. What did I learn? Read my review and save yourself a lot of wasted time and money.
You'll be glad you read THIS first!
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Zero Carbon Rated family?
Have just listened to a programme on the radio where they took the average family, gave them a carbon use measurement of 20 and set about reducing it to zero in 3 weeks.
Here are the main items they had to give up to reach zero:-
Two cars – they got bikes instead
The freezer
The fridge was replaced with a worktop model
Windmill in garden for generator
Fast foods out
Couldn’t use anything electric if washer was on.
Gas heating system replaced with electricity
Foreign holiday cancelled
Moved Father in law in with them.
Had to grow their own vegetables and fruit
etc etc etc
Question?
How many jobs are being put at risk by adhering to the above list?
At the end of the day, is it really all worth it when most of the other countries will only negate any action we take?
And finally, is this global warming a load of tosh designed to produce nice cushy jobs for some people and generate sales for some others?
Hi Skidoo
Ah well, you see, the father in law lived on his own creating another set of carbon footprint.
Now he shares the footprint of the family and is also the only one who knows how to prune the fruit trees
amazing innit?
global warming? does anybody have the common knowledge to see that global warming is natural?
Do you suppose that man made Global Warming? Well, you shouldn’t!
Why?
You don’t have to encompass an elevated thinking ability to see through the propaganda. Here’s how to figure out the truth for yourself:
1. Have you looked at your personal outside thermometer? Records are low and snow storms thrive.
2. Seventh grade physics show that CO2′s molecular mass makes it exceedingly heavy, thus fore; it can’t lift high enough to cause the greenhouse effect.
Yes, there is a greenhouse effect, except it’s mostly caused by water vapor! H2O is, to a great extent, lighter than CO2.
3. University freshman statistics will show you that the miscalculation rate in temperature samples used is greater than the claimed temperature increase.
4. Glaciers in Greenland have recently been shown to be getting thicker, not thinner. Same with Antarctic ice, which is never mentioned by warming alarmists.
5. The stories of polar bears declining are deceit, according to our government’s own statistics.
6. CO2 is plant food! When the earth was adolescent, there was awfully diminutive oxygen. It was lethal to the minority life forms here (primeval micro-organisms as well as plants). It amplified to today’s levels partially as exhaust from vegetation and, to a magnitude, from a few “visiting” comets
7. Reimbursement of forests happens only where government owns the forest. Clandestine tenure of forests results in recurring growing and cutting. They don’t waste the economic assessment of their own land! Take a glance toward the massive forests in Georgia and Florida, owned by Weyerhaeuser & other lumber companies.
8. Sunspot activity is in a cycle in which it reduces warming radiation from the sun. This is essentially causing a cooling cycle.
9. What about recent record cold temperatures and snow storms?
10. Why is it that the big scares always mean big profits for companies connected to governments? E.g. GE owns NBC, which is scaring us. But GE makes big dollars from sales of generators, nuclear, windmills and solar to governments.
11. Those who want US to completely change our lives are immune. Think this, How about Al Gore making his millions – driving his SUVs, owning several energy inefficient HOMES, that’s plural. He tells us to stop using gas, while he is private-jetting around to give big money speeches?
12. We’re supposed to forget similar false fears. Many of the same companies made big money off the “ozone layer” scam. Remember that one? It has also proven false. But, the media which scared us about it has remained silent. Instead, they come up with a new scary theory.
13. About 7 years ago, the same government-connected scientists and insiders were trying to scare us with the coming ice age. Remember that?
14. Volcanoes and the ocean are by FAR larger sources of CO2 and other “greenhouse” gases. Many, many, many multiples of the amounts we exhaust.
15. NASA was actually caught faking “warming” data. They simply copied September temperatures and submitted the same figures for October. They then claimed October was the hottest it’s been in decades.
ok kid. first answerer, your an idoitic hippie arent you? People are not responsible for Climate change we produce 1/10th of 1% of Greenhouse gasses.
Who is at fault Its called the sun and earth….
We have gone through several ice ages and warming periods.
Al Gore is the greatest con artist and makes a fortune off of these carbon credits his companies sell. This Global warming lie he has created. You notice it’s no longer called Global warming but Global Climate change since it has been cooling over the last 20 years. But global warming ended 10 years ago at the peak of the last solar cycle. And it switched to global cooling 3 years ago when the sun shut down all major activity and went into the coolest mode ever scientifically documented. Up until 1998 the world was receiving a slightly above normal amount of power from the sun causing the planet to warm slightly. Since the sun went into standby mode 3 years ago all the planets are cooling off.
Record cold and record snowfall across North Amerca and the world this year. The melting ice we hear so much about from liberals, hippies and other kooks have almost completely refrozen to the original state. After record 11 foot snowfall last year in the northeast and New Year’s snow in Florida this year as part of a record cold year…..once again the global warming idiots are exposed in their hoax.
” According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 was below the 20th century mean (-0.02°F/-0.01°C) for the first time since 1982. Temperatures were also colder than average across large swathes of central Asia, the Middle East, the western US, western Alaska and south-eastern China.
For the contiguous United States, the average temperature was 30.5°F (-0.83°C) for January, which was 0.3°F (0.2°C) below the 20th century mean and the 49th coolest January on record, based on preliminary data’. SUCK IT HIPPIES!!!
kids, just research these facts. they’re all true. “just a mistake”??! come on! its the government!
Can a VA Loan be used for a Sheriff’s Sale property?
There has been a lot of input stating that is is next to impossible to use a VA loan on a foreclosed properties. I am looking at bidding on a cabin at a great price and I have two main concerns.
First, the home may not qualify “as is” for a standard VA Loan for “Existing Construction” but couldn’t it qualify under the VA Loan’s “Proposed or Under Construction” category as an eligible property? That way any required repairs would be identified and the cost rolled into the loan?
The second concern is that the home is not hooked into standard electric utilities. It currently has a generator and a battery bank and I would install a residential windmill. The property has been surveyed as being in a commercial grade wind zone.
I know the property well and the opeing bid is half of the construction cost not to mention the 20 acres. Thank you for your input.
The plan would be that as “Proposed Construction” the cost of the windmill or other VA required power would be included in the loan. The 10% down at auction is not a problem. With a VA loan I would recover the 10% upon full payment. I would prefer to finance the entire amount and put the 10% into other new home costs.
You are a million percent right!
In my area, Lots of homes outside the conventional power grid have been purchased using VA guaranteed loans. So I would say there is a way to purchase using renewable energy sources you list.
As for purchasing foreclosed homes, the only problem I can fore see is if the home is going up for auction and the amount of money needed is unknown or some other unforeseeable factor. If the home has already been through the auction and the deed is clear of clouds, it should be as simple as any other VA loan.
VA loans work like this. The VA guarantees the bank they will be paid back if they loan money to you. The only time the VA actually puts up the money for a loan is in a circumstance where the Veteran can’t get a conventional loan from a bank.
Sounds like they moved back to the 12th Century.
So the future of Britain is to return to the Middle Ages?
EDIT…yes it is tosh. The idea is to give government the right to regulate EVERY aspect of your life.
How far you drive, how much power you use, what you eat, etc. EVERYTHING.
Gives the regulators cushy jobs in the castle while everyone else becomes a serf… or perhaps a “techno-serf”.