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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
February 26, 2005
This week, visit Web sites that will teach us how to make electricity out of thin air.
 Learn how to build your own wind turbine and other alternate energy projects at the System Designs-Alternative Energy Zone Web page. |
Carl Braesicke, K5HCB, e-mailed me last week suggesting that I feature the Otherpower.com Web site "as a tie-in to Field Day and emergency preparedness." Otherpower.com is a group of alternative energy enthusiasts who want to spread the message that it's easy to make your own power from scratch! Having just paid my monthly electric bill, I thought, "What a great idea!"
Otherpower.com bills itself as "a huge free resource for alternative energy enthusiasts and experimenters. Build your own low-RPM permanent-magnet alternators, battery chargers, anemometers, windmills, hydro turbines, and more. Free information on building remote power systems for cheap. Very active discussion board...get your solar/wind/hydro power questions answered fast! Many DIY projects and experiments. Unusual and hard-to-find components and books!"
That
whetted my appetite, so I Googled
"alternate energy," which resulted in 113,000 hits. The following is a
selection from that 113,000.
And while you are here, be sure to check out the ARRL's Emergency/Alternative Power Web page where you will find more excellent reading matter on the subject, but with Amateur Radio in mind.
Until next week, keep on surfin'.
Editor's note: Projects
that went wrong in his youth gave Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, a fear of battery acid.
To discuss batteries, battery acid and other neat stuff that makes holes in
your mother's carpet, e-mail Stan.
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