Here, watch this video of us testing one of our wind generators. The Search for an answer . The story of how we built our own wind generator over 15 years ago follows. This project has proven to be a great addition to our renewable energy system. In fact, we are confident that this is the fastest way for any family to get started. When we first started out with using renewable energy for our home we took the usual route and bought a few solar panels and eventually a wind generator too. We did all of the installation work ourselves , and soon visitors to our rather unique home were asking us to install renewable energy systems for them too. It developed into a rather busy time for us installing solar panels and wind generators, but we still had not found an answer to the problem of how expensive it was to get started running a home with renewable energy. You see a typical system we were installing cost about $10,000 for the average home, and the biggest expense was that wind generator coming in at about $4000 usually. That is a lot of money for most people, but it seemed like there was no alternative. And then it happened. The answer...