Several years ago I bought some remote property in Arizona. I am an astronomer and wanted a place to practice my hobby far away from the sky-wrecking light pollution found near cities of any real size. I found a great piece of property. The problem is, it's so remote that there is no electric service available.
Windmills are rather simple machines powered by wind energy. Wind turbines make use of wind to turn rotating blades. In earlier times, windmills were used to produce energy to grind grain and pump water. Nowadays, windmills are used to turn wind energy into usable (electricity) energy by making use of its rotating blades.
How to measure the performance of a wind turbine. The people that sign up to measure the performance of a wind turbine should check it out. The people with the electrical connections should also check it out since it talks about it a bit.
Micro windbelt generator is the cheapest and easiest DIY project for generation of wind energy. Even with its limited output capacity, small wind-belt can be used in situations where other wind generators would normally give no useful power output. Especially while camping or sailing, windbelt generator can recharge your batteries, cell phone, ipod, radio, small LEDs and much more.
NOTE: THE MAKE MAGAZINE ARTICLE SHOWS THE BLADES BEING CUT FOR A CW ROTATION. IF YOU ARE USING THE TREADMILL MOTOR MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE PLEASE CUT THE BLADES PER THE WEBSITE INSTRUCTIONS. Wind power is abundant, clean, inexpensive and easy to do.