You can find out how to build wind turbines (in a smaller scale compared to industry sizes of course) to power your home only with the help of the wind, lowering your bills with 80% or sometimes completely eliminating them. Click on the link found at the end of this article.
If you gain experience in building wind turbines for your home, it won’t only reduce your power bills and maybe get back some money from the power company like in California, but as a recent survey shows there is a serious shortage of qualified wind turbine technicians across the country!
We just read the results of Frontier Pro Services’ survey of approximately 75 wind farm operators in the United States. This reveals the aforementioned problem, and that this is an industry-wide situation and a serious threat to current wind farms.
Apparently manufacturers also face similar resource struggles because the services offered under warranty – like gearbox lubrication and general oil changes – prove to be a challenge for maintenance teams caused by their limited resources. These operations are essential in order for the turbines to continue generating electricity.
The most common failure is gearbox related and it could be prevented with regular and high quality maintenance thus avoiding the very costly repair of the already broken parts. These can total 15-20% of the price of the wind turbine itself. Experts say that a $1,500 bearing fails unnoticed it can cause severe damage to the company including revenue loss and the need for a replacement gearbox with the price of $100,000!
Gearbox failures account for the largest amount of downtime, maintenance, and lose of power production. These costly failures can total 15-20% of the price of the turbine itself, making wind turbine and gearbox maintenance a high priority.
You can find out how to build wind turbines (in a smaller scale compared to industry sizes of course) to power your home only with the help of the wind, lowering your bills with 80% or sometimes completely eliminating them.
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