Cheap Sources of Electricity: Wind and Solar

Who would not want to save electricity and at the same time help the environment? Of course everybody wants to help the planet. With the continuous battle on fighting all kinds of pollution, a lot of programs have been made by many environmentalists and experts to help make our planet clean and green. In able to achieve this goal, we should convert to the natural sources that produce electricity.

The first step in achieving this goal is to maximize the solar energy and wind energy that can be easily found almost anywhere. Electric companies have been harnessing the powers of natural energies and then provide you with electricity, but what most of the people do not know is that they can directly harness the powers of natural energies to provide them with electricity thus eliminating the cost of paying any electricity providers or electric companies.

With the use of solar panels, you surely will be able to save money for up to 80% of what you have been paying your electricity provider or the electric company. Manuals and instructions on making this kind of service system are also available almost everywhere, you can even search for it in the Internet and the skills needed for the construction of solar panels are not that very complicated. The basic understanding of this kind of energy system is that when there is sun, there is electricity. Well that is not always the case as you can store the extra energy you harnessed into batteries.

Another way to generate electricity is by the use of the wind. A windmill or a wind turbine generator is what is used when producing electricity from wind. Basically, what a windmill consist of is the dynamo. It is connected to a generator which later rotates the fan blades by the force of the wind. When the generator gathers enough wind energy, the dynamo then transforms or converts the wind energy into electricity. Windmills have higher efficiency rate when it is compared to an energy system such as solar panels. But the critical part of having this kind of energy system is that it should be placed in locations where the wind blows stronger.

The wind energy and the solar energy is the two most commonly used natural sources of energy that produces electricity. In order to generate electricity from wind, a windmill or wind turbine generator must be used, and in order to produce electricity from solar energy, a solar panel must be used. These energy systems are easy to build and can only cost you about $200. This is relatively affordable as you would only spend money once.

If you happen to choose and use the power of solar energy, then you must build a solar panel that is like the windmill in terms of converting energies as it is also an energy system. The solar panel has the capability to convert the sun's heat to electricity that you can use at home. What most people do is they build both energy systems and use it as an advantage in generating enough electricity for them to use. That is what you should probably do as well.