Rooftop Wind Turbines Blow Into Town

Imagine the freedom and ease of green conscience you would experience by putting a customized, light-weight wind turbine on your roof that could send off-grid electricity straight into your domestic sockets. Reality? Yes. Thanks to The Power Collective.

The product is called The Ridge Blade, and it's exactly what you need to achieve that eco-freedom - a windmill for the top of your house that shoots watts into your home. Using micro-wind generation technology, the turbine is designed to reliably produce electricity in low or variable wind conditions while also not looking like some huge structure that would cause erstwhile Don Quixotes to go scrambling up your domicile to do some tilting.

It's placed on the ridge line at the top of a building and uses the existing roof structure to collect gusts that naturally channel over the surface. This kind of design means it will work in areas that aren't super windy, including urban, rural, and environmentally-sensitive areas where bird crashes are a concern.

With the Ridge Blade, it turns out to be a breeze to generate home-based green electricity! They aren't available yet, but visit the website to get on their info list and you could be the first on your block to drop off the grid.

Photo via The Power Collective.