Going with the Wind - Popular Science

This is where you say, “What will they think of next?” or “Power to the people!” with the pun intended.  Pretty cool idea to make a wind turbine off of $300 in parts and some time.  I’m tempted to try this one of these years but it will have to wait until we have a house.  Something tell me the apartment complex might complain if I were to start propping windmills on the deck.

But giving people the ideas to develop their own devices will be huge.  Not only do you get to set your hand to freeing yourself from 100% reliance on the electrical grid, but you get to do it yourself.  Not just by dropping a few grand and having someone set it up for you.  And it is a good start towards bigger an better things.

If you’re into it, you should also check into the OScar open source automobile initiative.