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Originally posted by iroc409
isn't there usually city regs and stuff about using windmills and stuff? if you lived out of the city limits it shouldn't be a problem, but having a full-fledged turbine outside might have some issues. there's someone out of town though by my grandparents place that does that.
here's an interesting idea though. i wonder how this would work, but if you could get it to work right, you'd be set.
still have all your stuff connected to general utility, have some sort of system built up so it'd switch to public supply when the home supply didn't run.
but you could combine the turbine with solar panels, and probably have some sort of battery system to store energy (i'm afraid that a dc-ac inverter that big would be _expensive_.. but who knows). then, you could combine your solar system this way. on a lot of older houses they set up a heat collector on the roof to provide warmth and hot water. you could build a heat exchanger for water in the solar panel setup. like a box with a heat exchanger under the solar panels. the heat would build up substantially in the box... both powering the solar panels through the clear lid and creating heat at the same time.
something to ponder... could be some merit there 
toss a gas generator in the loop and you'd be fairly bullet proof... just not sure how the dc power storage, the inverter and the switch-to-public mechanisms would work...
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Being your allready into it for 8g's you just aswell drop another 8g's on a diesel/propane/whatever backup generator that will supply the whole house if needed. Would never have to worry about power outages again.