How Does Wind Power Work?

The prospect of using wind power is very seductive; but does it really work?

Well it certainly does, and has done for millennia. Wind has powered sailing vessels; it has also powered grain grinding mills. These became known as windmills. The wind has also been used to power water pumps — these were still called windmills but in reality wind pumps would have been a more accurate term.

More recently the wind has been used to drive turbines that produce electricity. Quite simply the wind, acting on the blades or sails of the turbine, causes the turbine to spin thus turning the shaft on which the blades or sails are mounted. The power of this spinning shaft is then used to drive an electric generator.

It is really a very simple process which can be adapted to drive small domestic wind power turbines through to huge commercial turbines.

Many people these days build their own wind turbines and in doing so save a considerable amount of money when compared with the commercial product. Many excellent guides are available on the Internet which take the do-it-yourself handyman through the process of building and installing domestic wind power.
I see one day soon every farm having a few, why not farm wind ? put it on the grid, and collect a check every month, I don't think that it's too big of a investment, if you consider not only the savings, but the profits after it's paid for in a few years, if one handles 90% of his farm then two would get him a check every month as well as free electricity. not a bad idea to think about if you own a chunk of land where it's usually windy