Types Of Homemade Power Generators You Can Build At Home

23 September 2010
Posted in Alternative Energy

The focal point of interest amongst home owners is building a homemade power generator. The two main reasons for this are the high cost of electricity and the bad effect of global warming to their community. I am positive that there are more home owners who would be interested to learn the types of homemade power generators. Let us name them one by one.

Types of homemade power generators:

• Solar power generator – This is a type of power generator which uses sunlight to generate electricity. It is using solar cell panels or photovoltaic cell panels in converting the solar energy to produce electricity. This is dependent on the availability of sunlight in one’s location. In order to maximize the harnessing of solar energy, the solar panel are placed on the roof of the building.

Storage battery is required in the system so that it can store the excess electricity that your will be producing. The storage battery is used when there is no sufficient sunlight or during night time. You also need a voltage inverter to change the dc voltage to ac voltage..

• Wind turbine generator – This type of power generator is using the wind to turn the blades of the turbine. The blades must be made of light and durable materials like the PVC pipes. To convert the wind energy into electricity, it needs an alternator unit. Just like the solar power generators, you will need also an storage battery to store the excess electricity that you will produce. You will need a small piece of land to construct your wind turbine.

• Magnetic power generator – This type or power generator is using magnets to generate electricity. The generation of magnetic electric energy is created by the polarization of the magnet poles resulting to a repelling and attracting action.. The output energy that is produced from this magnetic rotating movement is greater than the input energy. Therefore, we can say that this process produces free energy. Another good thing about it is it is cheaper to construct, uses lesser space and cheaper to run compared to solar and wind power generators.. .

There is no doubt that solar power, wind power and magnetic power generators can really cut your electric bills. On top of it it does not produce bad smoke and therefore does not pollute our environment. We can help clean our planet earth and stop the global warming if we use these three types of homemade power generators. It is about time that we start preserving our natural resources for the next generations to come.