How much is a wind-turbine to charge a car battery and where would I get one?
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Solar Cells are more suitable and available at just about every camping store. They also require less maintenance. The link below may interest you:
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Check with local energy company. good luck
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How small?  You can buy gas-powered generators from your local hardware store/Home Depot/Lowes for as little as a few hundred dollars.  You can probably get used ones off of EBay for even less.
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approx. 1600000000Kw hrs of electricity per hour you kept it on\n\nthat would cost a lot of money by the way and you might blow a fuse
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Sail boating.  I guess electric companies in CA. they use those huge electricity generating windmills.  Glider manufacturing.  Kite makers although I don't know if you would consider that an industry.
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I have studied this issue in the past and found the wind powered turbines online through a simple Froogle search.  Here's the link to the Alternative Energy Store:\n\nhttp://shop.altenergystore.com/items.asp?Cc=WINDGEN&CatMoveby=0&Nbm=&Pbm=&FromNav=
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Good Idea..but probably expensive to hook up the equipment to some sort of generator....gotta keep the place looking clean.\n\ninresponse to answerman....(below)\nIt could be possible to keep a battery bank charged and use an inverter to run a small a/c.\nSort of like a solar setup or windmill.
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Wind turns the propellers, which is connected to a turbine engine that converts the wind energy to electrical energy. I believe it is stored by batteries sometimes, or more commonly it is tied into the power system that it is associated with. Typically seen on farms because of their proximity to traditional power sources. Wind mills make it convenient because in the plains, there is an abundant source of wind.
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Battery backup is a battery that can power your computer (and other things, too) for a period of time in the event that your main power source fails (for example, in a power outage during a storm).\n\nThe more common term is "uninterruptable power supply" (UPS). These devices are available at most computer stores. Prices range from $50 to $500 and higher, depending mostly on how long you want to be able to keep your computer running.
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Wind mills and /or solar
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i have no clue, not sure what this competition would be anyways, might want to include the goal of what the windmil will do, what size is it going to be...\n\ni'd say research with like those windmill powerplants, they are shaped like HUGE propellers i think, i'm sure that would provide alot of torque and be efficent.\n\nthe companies making those windmill powerplants put LOTS of money into research to figure out how they can have their designs make the most electricy, so researching what they have found would probably help your project
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Your previous question asked about running a 200 hp machine, not a generator. He was suggesting utilizing a back up generator to run your machine when you lose power. You said nothing about cutting costs.
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You might want to get some help pulling a windmill up, they can weigh several hundred pounds.\n\nSERiously though, try this website that also has a howto forum \n\nhttp://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.html
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There is not enough wind power being generated for everyone who might want to buy it. And I would be suspicious too. How do you really KNOW that all your electricity comes from wind? Just because the electric company says it does? And you believe them? Wind power is just put on the power grid with all the other electricity, so it is all mixed up. You are depending on accountants at your power company to correctly calculate, second by second, that all the power from wind entering the network equals or exceeds all the power being used by customers paying extra to get wind power. I am not sure I trust them to do that.
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I think I would go with windmills, solar panels might be too much technology for an Amish technology.
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You need to hook enough solar panels in series to give a voltage slightly higher than that delivered by the car batteries.   I'll assume that they're 12 volt batteries.   Connect the panels in series until the output is about 12.5 volts.   Connect the ends to the terminals of your battery, checking that the polarity is correct.   When the batteries are partly charged, they'll easily deliver 120 VA for short periods, but unless you've got a very large array of solar panels, you won't get anything like this amount of power from the panels alone when the batteries are flat.   Car batteries are designed to deliver well over 1000VA to the starter motor.   I live in the S of NZ.   Not far from here there's a hut on a sheep station with a system like this that delivers power to a 12 volt lighting system.We probably get much less sunshine than you do in your climate, but last I heard, the system works fine.
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Solar power both thermal and photovoltaic, hydroelectric and hydromechanical, wind electric generators and wind mill mechanical drives. Alternative fuels; Methane, methanol, ethanol,Hydrogen.\n\nYou can pick up a photovoltaic cell at radio shack cheap.