How+Windmills+Can+Reduce+Our+Environmental+Footprint

Windmills [|Saving energy with windmills and why we should or something] A number of wind turbine options are small enough to get installed on private property, essentially allowing you to control your own power source. The average home uses about 10,000 kilowatt-hours in a year. A small-scale, 10-kilowatt wind turbine has the potential to generate up to 16,000 kilowatt hours per year. So it is theoretically possible for you to power your entire house with wind energy. But before you disconnect from the power grid, you'll want to do some research to see what kind of wind power your area can really produce. One wind turbine at a reasonable site would produce over 4,700,000kWH of electricity each year enough to meet the needs of over 1000 households. So if windmills can generate 16,000 kilowatt hours per year of power, then it is possible for a house to be powered by a windmill. is there any way we can make them smaller? i dont think anyone wants a huge windmill in the back of their yard. any ideas?

i think if enough people want to help save money and save the environment then what gerardo posted could be of use to this idea. if a community with 1,000 houses wants to use windmills all in the same area, then they could fundraise to buy the windmill and help set it up.

Commercial wind turbines consistantly in almost every company that makes them, cost 1 million dollars per mega watt the turbine can produce. So if you have a 3 mega watt wind turbine it will cost roughly 3 million dollars, with another 1/2 a million or so for instalation.

so for the windmill that gerardo is talking about (the underlined sentence) it's going to be an awful lot of money. BUT if we put a windmill in the middle of centreville that could power all of these houses, then in the long run we would be saving money, AND we would be using wind to power all of these things that we use electricity to power now. but we'll have to do some math to figure all this!
 * //__Okay so do the Math!!! (Mr. Robinson) hey gess what you smell like peanut butter and you look like a gaffer__//**