Generating Electricity From Wind With The Energy Ball V200
If you've every wondered whether you could have another choice and renewable energy source, rather than regularly relying on the utility and paying high rates for power, then the Energy Ball v200 could be the solution. An efficient and artistic design offers any homeowner the ability to harness the vast potential of the wind and convert it into electricity in their home.
The Energy Ball v200 is the stronger cousin of the v100 and manufacture up to 2,500 watts of power and can function on as little as 6.7 miles per hour of wind to operate and start producing power. If you are not familiar with the levels of wind in your location, this is a mild breeze and most regions of the world produce at least this much wind on any given day.
The oblong shape and unique appearance of the Energy Ball v200's rotating blades capitalize on the wind not just in one dimension, like most windmills and wind turbines, but as it passes through, creating more rotation and thus more energy. The purpose of these blades to create more electrical power with less wind.
In this modern era of volatile energy prices and battles in Congress over the expansion of nuclear power plants, offshore oil drilling, producing ethanol from corn, and other ways to create electricity in the coming years, renewable energy is still the best benefit for homeowners. By making your own electricity with the use of wind power, or even solar power, you can almost eliminate your dependence on the power from the electric companies.
The Energy Ball v200 will regularly make electrical power, regardless of what the weather is doing, just so long as a breeze is blowing. Of course, for a majority of the population, this won't eliminate your reliance on external power, but it will get you a long way to saving money on your next bill. By supplementing your power consumption with the Energy Ball v200, you also free up power for other parts of the region, or even reduce the need for the power company to create it.
The Energy Ball turbine doesn't appear to be a piece of machinery, so that it can be placed just about anywhere in your property that has a fair source of wind. Of course, you don't want to place it near the side of the house or under massive trees. The best idea is to place this unit in the open where the wind can approach it from any direction.
The turbine rotates just like a regular windmill or wind turbine so that wherever the wind is arriving from, it will rotate the unit to face the wind and thus capture as much as possible. By creating as much as 2,500 watts of power, this can run any number of electrical devices in the home, including computer systems, refrigerators, air conditioning units, and much more.
Most of these devices will be incorporated into the power input of the home so that when you need more power, you still receive from the main power company.
Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for Emmy Energy, a New York solar energy company offering solar heating tube systems solar electric panels & clean energy products in the Northeast.
