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How to Build a Homemade Wind Generator
How to Build Homemade Wind Generator
Since 2004 energy prices have doubled and will probably double again withing few years. But dont worry about this, because White House is accepting a law that will remove taxes from houses that use theyr own energy. This is because our world depends on oil, which unfortunately is running out and our coverment wants to promote using renewable energy. One way to do this is building yourself a homemade wind generator.
Homemade Wind generator is not hard to build and it can produce upto 1MW. This is more enough to cover your house power need. Here is the best part - if you produce more, then energy companies will buy your energy so you can earn from it.Building homemade wind generator - EASY
Wind generator consists mainly of 4 parts, which are relatively easy to assembel.
- Hub and Blades - This might sound like a hard part, but actually it is not, these are the parts that you can order from qualified suppliers, whom im going to introduce later on. The Homemade wind generator manual that I recommend You will also teach you how to build the blades so you dont have to worry about it. Although the price for blades is very low, something like $20.
- Body - this is the most fun part, because you can customize it like you want. Body is usually made of such a simple thing as vent pipe or etc. I will tell you more about alternative materials later on.
- Tower - Well the tail part can be a tricky one, but actually dont worry about, you can make it from small TV towers which are easy to obtain or flagpoles which in some cases come for free. The guide also provides information about this part also
- Tail - This is somewhat the hardest part, because you have to have a sketch or plan how to cut it out. The guide I recommend also has a superb sketch for carving out the tail from wood or PVC plastic.
Well that should show how easy it is to build a homemade wind generator. Although one other keypoint is the time.
THE TIME - TIME
Actually manufacturing a homemade wind generator wont take up much time, its more about time planning. First buy the guide and read it through, when you have all things sorted out then order the engine and meanwhile fabricate other parts.
Remember to
- Write your to-do list down
- Seperate different tasks
- NEVER QUIT!
The big problem for me also was that whenever I ran into problems I thought about stoping this build, but dont to that. Just go on building your homemade wind generator and never stop!
The Guide!
Why I recommend You to buy a guide for building Homemade Wind Generator is that you will have a in-depth manual and sketches, it also includes lists of stores that give-away parts for your homemade wind generator.
I recommend this homemade wind generator guide
I hope you got some valuable information from this short guide
Recommended Homemade Wind Generator Plans
I know by my self, that building a homemade wind generator is not hard, but it is, when you havent got a correct guide. This is why I am going to post my review of my favorite wind generator building guide.
It is called Earth4Energy
Firstly it seamed like a big scam to me, since I was not sure about the quality an internet product could give me. Well thats what I first thought, but actually it was not like this at all.
Whats in it
The book itself is superb, I was amazed that it was writen so easilly and it also has all the sketches and plans you need for building. Actually it was a good read even from the point of just reading it, because you get so much knowledge about energy and how to make your house energy efficient. Well finally I made it to the section Homemade Wind Generator, where it all started to unreveal. It was super, it had all information about generator engine and blades also how to build homemade wind generator tower and other needed information. The bonus was also that it had the list of stores that give away materials you can use for building your own wind generator.
Summary:
Easy to read and very detailed book, that will boost you into making your own energy with your own homemade wind generator.
Pros:
- Easy to follow
- Bonus: Learn how to make your house enegry efficient
- Guides to build a solar panel also
- Lots of extras
- Very detailed plans
- Super good tips about building
Cons:
- Might have too much useful infromation
- Actually I cannot think of cons.
I recommend You to get this homemade wind generator guide now and start building your own wind farm to stop paying electric companies and literaly save thousands bucks per year.
Get this ebook from here: Homemade Wind Energy
Have a great time building.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Woodblock Prints
Early Years and Career
It came as a surprise to me that such a renowned architect as Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a fan and collector of Japanese woodblock prints and that especially in his later years, he relied on the profit from selling these prints. He attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison like I had, so I felt something in common with him. I go back in time to his early years and how he came to associate himself with Japanese woodblock prints, and how he became an architect of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan in the early 1920s.
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator who designed more than 1,000 projects which resulted in more than 500 completed works. His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types such as offices, churches, schools, hotels, and museums. He was the architect of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan and spent almost three full years in Tokyo between 1917 and 1922 to design the hotel. During this time, he acquired thousands of woodblock prints for himself and other prominent American collectors. In his later years, he sold these woodblock prints to support himself financially.
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1867. He changed his name from Frank Lincoln Wright to Frank Lloyd Wright after his parents' divorce in 1881 when he was 14 years old, to honor his mother's Welsh family, the Lloyd Joneses. Prior to his parents' divorce, Anna, his mother, had been unhappy for some time with his father, William's inability to provide for his family. After the divorce, Frank assumed financial responsibility for his mother and two sisters as the only male left in the family.
Interest in Japanese Art
Wright attended a high school in Madison, Wisconsin but there is no evidence he ever graduated. He was admitted to the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a special student in 1886. He took classes part time and in 1887, he left the school without taking a degree, although he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University in 1955. He moved to Chicago and joined an architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee in 1887. While working for Silsbee, Wright meets Silsbee's cousin, Ernest Francisco Fenellosa, who happened to be America's foremost expert on Japanese art. Fenellosa stayed with Silsbee on his visits and at one meeting, Wright was shown the Japanese woodblock prints which Fenellosa had brought with him. Wright later recalls that "when I saw the fine prints, it was an intoxicating thing". Seeing these prints sparked an interest in Wright on Japanese art and architecture. What especially interested him was harmony with nature, simplification, honest use of materials and minimal decoration.
"The Wave" by Hokusai, renown Japanese woodblock print artist
As background information, Japan had been closed to foreigners for more than two centuries beginning in the 1630s; this foreign policy remained in effect until the arrival of Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853. This led to the opening of Japanese ports to foreign trade and the artistic benefits which came from it were to be seen almost immediately in Europe. By the 1870s, there was a steady flow of Japanese art and artifacts to Europe, particularly France. The Japanese woodblock prints, or the "uki-yo-e" (meaning "pictures of the floating world") especially inspired the leading artists of the time, such as Manet, Degas, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. What was happening in Europe, particularly France, eventually made its way to America. In America, at this early stage, until the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, interest in Japanese art was confined to a few artists and collectors in the major cities.
Wright's first direct experience of Japanese architecture came at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. Carpenters from Japan were sent to reconstruct a replica of Ho-o-den, a residential temple complex which had been the private home of the imperial regent Yorimichi Fujiwara (990-1074). It was the merging of religious and domestic forms in the building that appears to have made a lasting impression on Wright.
Front View of the Ho-o-den
Wright's architecture was influenced by the Japanese concept of architectural space where "space was one of total flexibility. The ceiling,columns, and floor were the only fixed structural members of a building: what little there was in the way of furniture was easily movable and rooms could be completely changed by addition or removal of screens and doors and the temporary placement of appropriate objects, as the occasion demanded". (from Margo Stipe, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Inspiration of Japan",p.6)
Similarly, Wright's houses rejected the idea of the house as a large box which contains smaller boxes and introduced the idea of continuous space. He was one of the first architect to introduce this concept.
Interior of house in San Francisco designed by Wright
Allen-Lambe House (desgined in 1915 by Wright for Henry J. and Elise Allen)
Visit to Japan
Wright visited Japan for the first time in 1905. By that time, Wright had undoubtedly become familiar with Fenellosa's ideas on Japanese art and how its aesthetic principles could be applied to architecture. Apparently, not much is known about his three month stay in Japan in 1905. He stayed in various cities, including Shikoku, Nagoya and Kyoto. When Wright sailed back to America, he took back a head full of architectural ideas and boxes of woodblock prints, several hundred by the artist Hiroshige alone. Hiroshige was one of the most famous woodblock print artist of his time.
"Tokaido 53 Tsugi" by Hiroshige (The location depicted in this print is "Nihonbashi" in Tokyo)
Personal Life
While Wright was still married to his first wife, he began an affair with Maymah Cheney, the wife of Edwin Cheney for whom Wright designed a house. In 1909, Wright abandoned his first wife and six children and left for Europe with Maymah. They stayed mainly in Italy and upon his return to the States a year later, Wright began constructing his home called "Taliesin" in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The term "Taliesin" in Welsh means "shining brow".
The Imperial Hotel
In 1913, Wright and Maymah Cheney, his mistress, visited Japan. Wright asserted that the trip was the invitation of the Emperor, but the real purpose of the trip was to purchase Japanese prints for re-sale to American collectors. During the course of the visit, Wright was contacted by the representatives of the Emperor who informed him of of the Court's wish to replace the old Imperial Hotel in Tokyo built in the 19th century by German investors with a new, deluxe building which would attract foreign visitors to the city. The commission was important to Wright because it gave him the opportunity to design on a grand scale, something which had been denied to him until then.
The following year in 1914, the fire at Taliesin devastated Wright's blossoming professional and personal life. While Wright was away in Chicago, one of the servants set fire to the house and killed Maymah and her two children. After this tragedy, he started a self destructive relationship with Miriam Noel, who took drugs and was emotionally unstable.What saved him was the commission to design the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which became official in 1916. Wright came to Tokyo in 1917 with Miriam. Until 1922, Wright basically lived in Tokyo with occasional trips home.
Wright's version of the Imperial Hotel was designed in the "Maya Revival Style" of architecture. It incorporates a tall, pyramid-like structure and also loosely copies Maya motifs in its decorations. The main building materials are poured concrete and concrete block, and it was completed in 1923.
In the same year, the Kanto Great Earthquake struck Tokyo and the surrounding area. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 7.9.
A telegram reported the following:
Hotel stands undamaged as monument to your genius. Congratulations.
In reality, the building had damage; the central section slumped, several floors bulged, and four pieces of stonework fell to the ground. The major damage was on the foundation. The foundation was an inadequate support and did nothing to prevent the building from sinking into the mud to such an extent that it had to be demolished decades later. But most importantly, despite the damage, the hotel remained standing.
In 1968, more than 40 years after it was built, the facade and pool were removed to the museum called Meiji Mura, a collection of buildings mostly from the Meiji Era located near Nagoya. The rest of the structure was demolished to make way for a new hotel on the site.
Imperial Hotel Tokyo,Japan designed by Wright
Later Years
Wright began collecting Japanese woodblock prints when he first visited Japan in 1905. He became an active dealer in these prints and frequently served as both architect and art dealer to the same clients after he returned to the U.S. For many years, Wright was a major presence in the Japanese art world, selling a great number of works to prominent collectors.
His last visit to Japan was in 1922, the year before the earthquake. He was unable to buy more prints during his visit so presumably, he bought prints off one collector and sold it to another when he returned to the U.S. Wright, however, had the tendency to live beyond his means and this led to great financial trouble for him. He was forced to sell off much of his art collection in 1927 to pay off outstanding debts. The Bank of Wisconsin claimed his Taliesin Home the following year. Wright continued to collect and deal in Japanese woodblock prints until his death in 1959. The sale of these prints saved him financially throughout his life. Wright's life work was architecture, but dealing in these prints paid Wright's bills. That aside, he is still regarded as one of the greatest architects of the 20th century.
Building your own Remote Control Jet
hese toys are as close as you can get to the real deal. They are fast, powerful and sound like a real fighter jet. They run on the same principle and at 7 to 10 feet, are the largest radio controlled models available today. How do you go about getting your hands on, and creating, your own radio controlled jet airplane? Lets find out!
There are few things more powerful and realistic, in the world of toys, than radio controlled (RC) jets. Like real fighter jets that are built on the cutting edge of technology, RC jets too are at the cutting edge of toy-world science. Containing a model jet engine that is based on the real-life version, RC jets are a huge challenge, even for those who have built them.
If you do want to get into the world of RC jets, it is imperative that you have prior experience in making, flying and maintaining regular forms of radio controlled models. With RC jets, you hit a different level altogether, in every aspect. Without prior experience, it might be very difficult for you to put everything together.
The Growth Stage
As a person interested in radio controlled toys, RC Jets are the final stage of evolution. You cannot reach this stage unless you pass through a few levels before it. While there is just one distinct line of separation, experienced hobbyists will tell you that from the first level to the last, there are enough and more jumps to take, before you can take on the really big boys.
For beginners, there are RC Trainer Jets to help you get through the acclimatization phase. These jets are easier to build but are made along the same principles. This allows you to make exactly what you need without having to go through the complex build procedure of a real RC jet.
Once you have learnt how to build and fly an RC trainer jet, you can move onto the maintenance bit.
With all these aspects under control, you can move beyond trainers and get onto the real things. However, you need to know that even in the non-trainer variety, there are various levels. While these levels may not be clearly demarcated at all times, you are sure to find something in a progressive manner.
Once you have moved on to the serious RC jet levels, it’s time to take your hobby to the next level. American Foursquare House Style
The American foursquare house is present in almost every urban neighborhood developed in the first half of the 20th century. Due to its inexpensive, yet practical, spacious, and attractive design, the American foursquare became the dwelling of choice for families with modest means looking to buy or build new homes across the United States.
Depending on where you live, the American foursquare house type is also referred to as “American Basic,” "Builder's House," “Square House,” “Box House,” “double cube,” “double-decker,” and even “American Farm House,” which is a misnomer, as most of these homes were built in cities. Due to the high number of these houses, they also became known as “National Houses.”
American Foursquare House, Washington, DC 20011
Overall Design of American Foursquare Houses
The American foursquare design is not really square. Its rectilinear proportions, square plan, low-hipped roof, and plain facades, are actually the main characteristics of early prairie homes of the Midwest constructed and popularized by the Prairie School architects.
As cities in the U.S. began to grew, and land values skyrocketed, urban areas were crammed with narrow lots, mostly rectangles with the short side facing the streets. So American foursquares showed a tendency toward a narrower front and back and longer sides to fill the site.
With the expansion of cities, greater flexibility in building could be achieved. Consequently, foursquare houses could grow in size and often displayed features of ornamentation. According to a well-documented pattern, square houses situated closer to downtowns are usually smaller and less ornate, while the ones located in outlying neighborhoods and suburbs are larger and more decorative.
American Foursquare House, Florida
Features of the American Foursquare House
The American foursquare's most important indicator is its cube-like shape, which basically makes it an efficient, self-absorbed box. Despite all the wings, porches, bays and other appendages the building might feature, the basic shape always remains this apparent box.
The upper perimeter of the house is followed by broad, overhanging eaves, which provide shade for the second story and its bedrooms as well as a settled look for the whole building. The roof-lines proceeding from these enlarged eaves tend to be a pyramidal shape. Due to the inexpensive design, chimneys rarely add to the aesthetic experience, usually made of brick or concrete. An extended front dormer, often hipped like the roof, became another trademark of the American foursquare and streamlines light and air into the attic.
The house features simple, double-hung, often irregularly shaped windows easily opened for maximum ventilation. The lower portion is usually a sheet of plain glass, while the upper half is made up of smaller panes united in a single frame, divided by thin muntins. The purpose of the windows is obviously to let the light and air in.
Most American foursquares have a more or less decorative porch across its front. They vary from a simple raised floor with a plain roof over it to classy classical columns and railings holding an ornamented roof that comes with friezes, garlands, and fancy shingles.
American Foursquare Floor Plan
American Foursquare Interior
What sells American foursquares is their interior arrangement. In these two-story homes, the 1st floor houses a spacious living room, a formal dining area, a den, and an airy, well-equipped kitchen with pantry. The 2nd floor usually contains four large bedrooms, each with its own closet.
Even more livable space is provided by the attic that could be used for storage or still more rooms. The full basement with a bare earth floor and no living amenities usually contains the furnace and accompanying coal bin.
As demand for this type of home increased, it became more sophisticated. Simple clapboard walls evolved into brick or shingle facades, and towers, vestigial turrets, and bays sprang out of the basic cube. Sometimes, the hipped roof has a widow’s walk at its apex, or a balustrade above the overhanging eaves.
The market was flooded with catalogs of simple plans, offering a mass-produced house to anyone. Merchandisers like Montgomery Ward, Sears and Roebuck, Aladdin, Gordon Van Tine, had offered dwellings in kits for a long time, their box houses promptly became some of their most popular models.
Modern Home No. C227 - The Castleton from the Sears Modern Homes Mail Order Catalog, 1921
Although, after World War II, American foursquare style houses were no longer constructed, in many eastern American cities, they remain the dominant residential design. It has been suggested that the foursquare is really a modern-day version of Georgian mansions made more practical. Although this may not be true, at a time when middle-class Americans wanted more spacious homes and larger lots, the box house satisfied most desires.
Everything in Nature is Related
Recent discoveries in quantum physics, microbiology, and ecology verify something gardeners have long known. Everything in nature is related. There are no solid lines between the plants’ roots, the soil, and the bacteria and fungi tying it all together. To help understand why garden crops do or do not thrive, we are led into the enigmatic field of companion planting.
Just as we work and feel best around our friends, plants will grow better in their preferred company. Although the reasons may be obscure, a lot of observation and a little intuition can reveal mutual attractions and aversions. The garden teaches us the value of old-time practices, fresh experiments, and keeping three eyes open.
Following the advice of Steiner, Albrect, Howard, Rodale, and others, we build up a live soil humus with an inherent microbial intelligence. Native Americans did not have to do all that reading; they simply did not plow, compact, or put chemicals on their soils in the first place. Right off the bat, they taught us companion planting with the “three sisters”- corn, beans, and squash.
Corn belongs to the grass family. It’s shallow, fibrous root system requires extra nitrogen. Beans, on the other hand, have a deep tap root and a symbiotic relationship with soil bacteria that accumulate nitrogen. Squash grow well in the shade of the beans, which climb up the corn stalks. The squashes’ big leaves provide shade that keeps the soil moist and the weeds from sprouting. An Iroquois corn patch produced three times as much grain per acre as European wheat farmers were getting, along with extra vegetables to boot.
In the spring garden, lettuce, carrots, peas, beets, and radishes all grow well together. Although carrots are companion plants with peas as well as onions, peas do not grow well next to onions. The pea and bean families do not like the onion family, which includes garlic, leeks, and shallots. Radishes repel cucumber beetles and are harvested quickly.
Cabbage grows well with beets and potatoes; they can be planted together in early spring. We grow kale and Chinese cabbages in the fall for several reasons: they like cooler weather, and are not bothered by bugs as much then.
In our crop rotation, potatoes follow a grass or clover sod because untilled land has more fungal activity underground. Plenty of compost and loose soil keep the potatoes from attracting beetles. After a season of cultivating, the microbial domination has shifted in favor of bacteria. This is well suited for the cabbage family. Companion planting is related to crop rotation, since certain crops prepare the soil for the next one.
Potatoes and beans planted together help to repel the each other’s pesky beetles. However, they are planted in different seasons, so we do not use this particular combination. We plant alternate rows of bush beans and cucumbers. Along with their mutual attraction, the timing works well. The quick-maturing beans yield a few pickings before the cuke vines invade their rows and hide the future pickles in their shade.
Cucumbers also like dill in the garden and in the jar. Similarly, basil and tomatoes grow and taste good together. Herbs add a whole new dimension, aroma, and beauty to the garden. They have also long been observed to be good companion plants. Parsley and her sisters in the umbelliferae family have blooms that supply nectar to beneficial insects. Fennel and wormwood are the herbal exceptions, as other plants generally do not like them.
When folks see flowers in the garden, they often this we are trying to keep bugs away. Nothing could be further from the truth. We love flowers because they attract insects, most of which are beneficial. Marigolds excrete a toxin for certain nematodes, but flowers are grown for the birds and the bees.
Companion Planting, by Helen Phibrick and Richard Gregg, was published in 1966. It became a source of conversation and experimentation in my parents’ organic gardens. It makes sense that plant species will show sings of sympathy and antipathy with each other. The garden combinations of flowers, herbs, and vegetables are endless. Therefore, we must consider this a recent science wide open for exploration. Every garden and every year is a new opportunity to marvel at and unearth nature’s mysteries, wisdoms, and interconnectedness.
Coloring Pages Converted from Photos
Coloring Pages Converted from Photos
You can easily convert any picture into a coloring page. By taking the saturation, which is the color, out of the picture, you get a black and white photo. Then you can use the contrast and brightness to tweak it to allow enough white space to color. Then all you have to do if figure out how to print these pictures.
The following are examples of these realistic coloring page pictures. You will need to save the pictures to a document, or you will need to right click to "save as" if you want to keep these and print the pictures. You may be able to right click and print the photos right from the page.
How to Color these Pictures
When you go to color these pictures, keep in mind that these are not simple outlines of objects. Shading and natural casts of light are already on the subjects, so your job is to merely add color.
Keep in mind that you need to use lighter colors on areas that are brightest and darker colors on areas that are already dark.
Another cool idea is to only color the parts of the picture that you want to stand out. For example in the picture here, only color the flower and leave the dark background in black and white to make the flower pop out with colorful contrast.
Notice the different shades of green used on the green part of the plant. Use different shades of colors on the same part to shade and blend colors in a more realistic way.
Coloring Pictures of Flowers
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A great black and white. Color the flower only and leave the background.
Pictures of Animals
In the following pictures of animals, you'll notice that it can be difficult to get the correct color for the actual animals in the pictures. Don't worry too much about accuracy of color. Keep Andy Warhol in mind when you do your coloring and you can call yourself a modern artist.
Real Animal Pictures to Color
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A close up giraffe coloring page
How to Color a Butterfly
Butterflies are beautifully colored creatures in the natural world. Color these butterflies with the vivid colors you imagine. Don't underestimate the beauty of the contrast between drab colors like brown and grey with bright colors such as lime green or purple. Brightness can only be achieved if there is dullness around to show contrast. Butterflies do this naturally, so attempt this natural trick with your butterfly coloring page.
Real Photos of Butterflies to Color
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Blue morpho butterfly coloring picture
How to Make Your Own Coloring Pages
If you are interested in making your own coloring pages like these, it's a simple process. If you have any picture editing software, you simply desaturate (take the color out) the picture and increase the contrast and brightness.
The trick is finding the right balance of brightness and contrast to make sure that the major lines of details are present without including too much shading.
3 Steps to Make Your Coloring Pages
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