[rstrahan]

The cost on a power windmill gives about a 50% ROI over the life of the windmill. I have actually seen the costs, run the figures.

Battery storage is your biggest cost.

If you have the space, add a cistern for your well with filters, fill the cistern using the pump during the day. That takes the load off the batteries in the night hours as well as keeping the overall pressure up, and giving adequate reserves in case of power failures. You don’t want to be relying on batteries to drive a well pump. These are power hogs.

[cuban leaf]

The cost on a power windmill gives about a 50% ROI over the life of the windmill.

---

Mine would be verticle and home made. And I’m not doing it to save money. I’m doing it to augment night time power at my place here. We get horrendous wind sometimes. Heck, we have a couple of streams on our property. We might even want to throw in a waterwheel or two some day. And with all the wood on the place (32 acres, about 60% wooded) someone suggested steam power for those times when solar and wind don’t cut it. Seems like a lot of work, though.

[cuban leaf]

If you have the space, add a cistern for your well with filters, fill the cistern using the pump during the day.

---

I was thinking above ground, gravity feed.

[logic101.net]

The cost on a power windmill gives about a 50% ROI over the life of the windmill.

You also have to figure in the food savings with wind power; you can eat some of the birds it kills.