Simple DIY Wind Turbine Built From Household Materials

This awesome wind turbine can be made from simple materials and a little ingenuity. It's called 'the Zoetrope' and it's “A low-cost, open source, wind turbine” that you can build at home very inexpensively and with materials you can find at home and down at your local hardware store.

It produces about 150-200 watts of electricity, and the plans are freely available under a Creative Commons license which means they’re free to use on your own project at home.

The plans can be found here.



Below you can see some of the steps involved.

The Zoetrope is a vertical-axis wind turbine made from common materials such as stove pipe, metal brackets, plastic sheet and a trailer hub. Many of the materials can be found at local hardware or home improvement stores, the rest can either be made at home or purchased online. The Zoetrope was commissioned by Washington (USA) resident and renewable energy supporter Mike Marohn to provide supplemental water heating.

The Zoetrope Wind Turbine

Source:
http://www.offgridworld.com/simple-diy-200-watt-wind-turbine-built-from-household-materials/

Peru is giving 2 million people free electricity

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Peru will provide electricity to more than 2 million of its poorest residents, Don Lieber from Planetsave has reported. Currently, only 66% of Peru’s 24 million people has access to electricity, according to the country’s Energy and Mining Minister Jorge Merino. By 2016, the plan is to provide electricity to 95% of residents through The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program. “This program is aimed at the poorest people, those who lack access to electric lighting and still use oil lamps, spending their own resources to pay for fuels that harm their health,” he said. The first phase will install 1,601 solar panels in the Contumaza province, enough to power 126 communities throughout Cupisnique, San Benito, Chilete, Tantarica, Yonan, San Luis, and Contai. The second phase of the project will involve 12,500 PV systems to provide 500,000 households, about 2 million people, with free electricity. The overall cost will be around $200 million.

Source: http://www.the9billion.com/2013/07/18/peru-to-provide-free-solar-power-to-2-million-of-its-poorest-residents

Hold up... What else is Peru known for?... Oh ya.. that's right... They have completely BANNED GMO's:
http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2013/05/peru-bans-gmo.html