If you gain experience in building wind turbines for your home, it won’t only reduce your power bills and maybe get back some money from the power company like in California, but as a recent survey shows there is a serious shortage of qualified wind turbine technicians across the country!

 We just read the results of Frontier Pro Services’ survey of approximately 75 wind farm operators in the United States. This reveals the aforementioned problem, and that this is an industry-wide situation and a serious threat to current wind farms.

Apparently manufacturers also face similar resource struggles because the services offered under warranty – like gearbox lubrication and general oil changes – prove to be a challenge for maintenance teams caused by their limited resources. These operations are essential in order for the turbines to continue generating electricity.

The most common failure is gearbox related and it could be prevented with regular and high quality maintenance thus avoiding the very costly repair of the already broken parts. These can total 15-20% of the price of the wind turbine itself. Experts say that a $1,500 bearing fails unnoticed it can cause severe damage to the company including revenue loss and the need for a replacement gearbox with the price of $100,000!

Gearbox failures account for the largest amount of downtime, maintenance, and lose of power production.  These costly failures can total 15-20% of the price of the turbine itself, making wind turbine and gearbox maintenance a high priority.

You can find out how to build wind turbines (in a smaller scale compared to industry sizes of course) to power your home only with the help of the wind, lowering your bills with 80% or sometimes completely eliminating them.

In short: resounding yes. Many are against wind turbines and wind farm building, and I have to admit they have a few good reasons other than the stupid „I don’t like the look of wind mills in the countryside”. Well, I don’t like that the Arctic is getting smaller and smaller every day, and the fact that maybe my children won’t be able to experience the world as it is today. Letting go of the untouched view is a small sacrifice in exchange for nothing less than the whole future of Earth.

Other than the panorama there are a few reasons why one wouldn’t choose wind turbines over regular electricity generation:
Wind turbines do not produce constantly. Their performance varies based on the actual power of the wind. This can be from zero to storm force!
Efficiency is not the best available: a modern turbine running at its normal pace can deliver power to 500 households. Count quickly how many would be needed for a city with 20 million habitants?
It is not true that wind turbines are 100% environment friendly, because when factories produce them, they do emit pollution into the air. But that is a onetime pollution against the constant negative effects of regular ways.
They are noisy creatures. One turbine can produce the same level of noise as a car travelling at 60mph on the highway! You certainly don’t want that under your window constantly.

BUT almost all of these are against the industrial versions, not the ones built for home usage.

The wind is free, and it can be captured with good efficiency nowadays compared to the results some decades ago.
They do not take large portion of lands like solar farms do! The land around these small towers can be cultivated or used in a different way without any problem!
The other half of people thinks they add to the view of the landscape!
If you live on the top of the hill or miles away from any civilization you can still generate your own power with smaller wind turbines!
And the last and best one: you can build one yourself! It’s an easy process and nowadays there are complete guides available. You can view a few of these on the link found at the end of this article!