Renewable Energy Sources 101

By Gary Ashby

Do you wish to learn how windmills generate electricity, and how you can use them to run your home? As the natural resources needed to create electric power are decreasing every day along with rising electric bills, alternatives like wind and solar energy have started getting a lot attention. It is much more [...]

Author: Dave Tishendorf

The windmill, now one of the stars of the worldwide drive to develop a reasonably priced, non-polluting alternative energy source, has humble origins.

The first windmills were built to automate the tasks of grain-grinding and water-pumping, and the earliest-known design is the vertical axis system developed in Persia about 500-900 A.D.

The windmill’s rise to [...]

 By John Wickley

Windmill electricity will play a big role in our future economy and in the way we think about energy consumption. As finite resources in this country have just about been tapped, we import the majority of our fuel from overseas. We spend billions and trillions of dollars on this each year sending our [...]